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`ApplicationiControl Number: 127816.084
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`DETAILED ACTION
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`Alla arable Subject Matter
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`1.
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`The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: The closet
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`references of record are (Note these references were made of record on PTOL-l449) Bouevitch
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`et. al., U.S.P. No. 6,498,872 which teaches (Figs.1-12) an optical device which is used in
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`conjunction with configurable optical addfdrop multiplexers (COADM) which includes optical
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`fiber input/output ports 80a,80b,99a,99b which sends wavelength of light which are collimated
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`through lens 90 to spherical reflector 10 which is incident of diffraction grating 20 to MEMS
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`reflector(s) 51,52.which are movable in either the horizontal or vertical directions to return
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`specific wavelengths lambda 1, lambda2 to the output ports 3. Bouevitch et. al., U.S.P. No.
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`6,498,872 does not teach or suggest using channel micromirrors which are both individually and
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`continuously controllable to reflect received spectral channels to any one of the output ports and
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`to control the power of the received spectral channels coupled to the output ports.
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`2.
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`Additional secondary references Wagener et. al., U.S.P. No. 6,631,222 (Figs.1-4), Jin et.
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`al., U.S.P. No. 6,256,430 (Figs.l-7) and Ma et. al., U.S.P. No. 6,567,574 (Figs.l-12) all teach
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`that at the time the invention was made it was know that pivotable micro mirrors or MEMS can
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`be used with wavelength multiplexers to switch or select wavelengths between input and output
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`ports.
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`3.
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`None of the aforementioned references, either taken alone or in combination with each
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`other, teach or suggest the claimed optical add-drop device which includes an input port for an
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`input mum-wavelength optical signal having first spectral channels; one or more ports for second
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`spectral channels, an output port for an output multi-wavelength Optical signal ; a wavelength-
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`selective device for spatially separating the Spectral channels, a spatial array of beam deflecting
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`elements such that each element receives a corresponding one of the spectral channels and each
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`of the elements are individually and continuously controllable in two dimensions to reflect
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`it’s corresponding spectral channel to a selected one of the output ports and to control the
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`power of the received spectral channels reflected to the selected ports. These limitatiOns are
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`recited in amended claim 1. Therefore the patentability of amended claim 1 is confirmed.
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`4.
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`Dependent claims 2-14 are inclusive of the limitations of amended claim 1, as well as
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`other additionally recited limitations. Please see the dependent claims for the specifics of these
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`additionally recited limitations. The patentability of dependent claims 2-14 is confirmed.
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`5.
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`In addition, none of the aforementioned references, either taken alone or in combination
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`with each other, teach or suggest the claimed optical add-drop device which includes an input
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`port for an input multi-wavelength optical signal having multiple Spectral channels; an output
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`port for an output multi-wavelength optical sig