Appeal 2007-1008
Application 10/208,861
Krauss discloses an apparatus for coating a flat workpiece. Krauss
does not relate to a coating of an optical fiber. The flat workpiece in Krauss
passes to a first coating stage to a first curing stage to a second coating stage
and then a second curing stage. The coating applied in the first coating stage
is not partially cured in the first coating curing stage and is not cured a
second time before the second coating is applied (Abstract).
Shaw discloses an apparatus for coating sheet material. Shaw does
not relate to the coating of an optical fiber. The sheet material is coated by
primary coater 40 and this first layer of coating is cured by at first curing
coating stage 44. A second coating is applied at coater 46 and this second
coating is cured at second coating curing station 48 (Figure 6A; col. 10, ll.
47 to 66). Shaw does not disclose that the first layer of coating of the sheet
material is partially cured at the first coating curing station and cured again
at the second coating curing station. Rather, a second coating applied by
second coater 46 is cured in the second coating curing station.
DISCUSSION
We will not sustain any rejection of the Examiner because none of the
references applied disclose, or would have rendered obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art, partially curing a first layer of coating on an optical
fiber at a first coating curing stage and a second curing of the first layer of
coating at a second coating curing stage.
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