Appeal No. 2007-0467 Page 2
Application No. 10/646,929
said hollow elongated body, a first series of bores located about the
periphery of said lens magnification changer in a common plane and
extending diametrically through said lens magnification changer, a
second series of bores located about the periphery of lens
magnification changer in a common plane and extending diametrically
through said lens magnification changer, a lens assembly located in
each bore of said first and second series, the other of said ends of
said hollow elongated body including an objective lens, a first of said
optical paths extending through one of said oculars to one of said
prism assemblies, through one of said first series of bores of said lens
magnification changer and through said objective lens, a second of
said optical paths extending through the other of said oculars to
another of said prism assemblies, through one of said second series
of bores in said lens magnification changer and through said objective
lens, one or more light emitting diodes located in said hollow
elongated body adjacent said objective lens.
22. A stereo microscope as set forth in claim 12, wherein said two
oculars, prism assemblies and lens magnification changer are
mounted on a base section of an internal mount located within said
hollow elongated body.
The references relied upon by the examiner are:1
Fogle 3,434,772 Mar. 25, 1969
Takizawa et al. (Takizawa) 4,396,260 Aug. 2, 1983
Yamamoto et al. (Yamamoto) 5,442,489 Aug. 15, 1995
Harooni et al. (Harooni) 5,841,509 Nov. 24, 1998
GROUNDS OF REJECTION
Claims 12 and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over the combination of Takizawa, Yamamoto and Harooni.
1 The examiner also identifies Blaha et al., United States Patent No. 4,175,826, issued Nov. 27,
1979; and Fukaya, United States Patent No. 5,420,716, issued May 30, 1995 as “Evidence
Relied Upon.” The examiner, however, did not rely on either reference to support the rejections
presented for our review, accordingly, we did not consider these references in our deliberation.
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