Appeal No. 1998-1807
Application No. 08/090,770
expanded abrasive.” A “plateau honing tool” is, thus, a3
honing tool as defined, supra, capable of imparting a plateau
finish to a workpiece surface. Here, we can think of no
circumstances under which the artisan, consistent with the
appellants' specification, would construe either the polishing
pad of Wiand or the abrasive dental articles of Hammar as a
"plateau honing tool."
We also disagree with the examiner’s position that Wiand
and Hammar each teach a method of making a “tool” having an
elongated mounting base and an elongated projecting section
which terminates in an elongated working face. The examiner’s
position is that the “elongated mounting base” reads on the
planar sheet portion [12] and the “elongated projecting
section” and “elongated working face” read on the projections
14 and working surface 18, respectively, of Wiand (Answer,
page 9). As to Hammar, the examiner refers to the “polishing
tip” illustrated in
Figure 2 and reads the “elongated mounting base” on the
portion
3Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language,
Unabridged, G. & C. Merriam Co., Springfield, MA, 1971.
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