Appeal No. 97-3345
Application 08/332,936
COHEN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the refusal of the examiner
to allow claims 14 through 20 and 33 through 35, as amended
(Paper No. 15) subsequent to the final rejection (Paper No.
11). Claims 2, 3, 9, 10, 12, 13, and 21 through 32, the only
other claims remaining in the application, stand allowed.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a method of
pipelaying by connecting two lengths of steel pipe without
welding the pipe. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 14, a copy of which
appears in the APPENDIX to appellant's brief (Paper No. 14).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied
the documents listed below:
Kessler et al. (Kessler) 3,784,235 Jan. 8,
1974
Nemoto et al. (Nemoto) 4,091,630 May 30,
1978
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