Vehicle headlight

The examiner has issued a Final Office Action maintaining all rejections. Claim 1 is rejected under §102 as anticipated, meaning the examiner found a single prior patent (Byrnes) that already discloses every element of the claim. Claims 2-5 are rejected under §103 as obvious, meaning the examiner believes combinations of two or three prior patents (Byrnes with Lin or Kanayama) would have made these claims obvious to a person skilled in vehicle headlight design.

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