Appeal No. 2005-1942 Page 2
Application No. 10/173,938
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to closures and cassettes
for a housing bridge and/or transition optical fibers in a
dispersion-managed network(specification, page 1).
Claim 1 is representative of the invention, and is reproduced as
follows:
1. A fiber optic cable closure for containing optical fibers
of a dispersion-managed network, the fiber optic closure
comprising:
a housing having a cavity; and
at least one bridge optical fiber disposed within the
cavity, the bridge optical fiber having a first end and a second
end configured for optically connecting with optical fibers
having different dispersion characteristics.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Keys 6,456,773 Sep. 24, 2002
(filed Apr. 17, 2000)
Mukasa 6,470,126 Oct. 22, 2002
(filed Jun. 22, 2000)
Claims 1-31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Mukasa in view of Keys. Rather than reiterate
the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference
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