Appeal No. 1996-3386
Application No. 08/136,123
Claims 1, 2, and 4 each require "long and short
projections being arranged in an alternating fashion with
nearest neighboring short projections being separated from one
another by a respective one of the long projections." Claim 3
requires that "a respective one of said long projections is
disposed laterally adjacent one side of each of said short
projections and a respective another of said long projections
is disposed laterally adjacent another side of said each of
said short projections." In other words, for every claim,
each short projection must have a long projection on each
side.
The examiner relies on Figure 17 of Sato as showing all
of the elements of claim 1 except for "longer ridge-like
projections
on the sides of short projections" (see Answer, page 5). The
examiner turns to Figures 4-5 of Kendall for "longer ridge-
like projections (5) on the sides of short projections (9)"
we agree that inconsistencies exists which easily can be and should be
corrected.
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