Appeal No. 1999-1529 Page 10
Application No. 08/366,985
For the reasons stated above, the decision of the
examiner to reject independent claim 1, and claims 41 to 49
dependent thereon, under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
Claim 38
Claim 38 recites a method of supporting rock in a mine
comprising, inter alia, the steps of (1) digging a bore hole
in rock; (2) inserting a resin cartridge into the bore hole;
(3) inserting a cable into the bore hole; (4) mixing the resin
with the cable to form an anchor with the rock; and
(5) tensioning the cable.
The examiner implicitly found (answer, pp. 4-5) that the
only difference between Cranko and claim 38 was the tensioning
step. With regard to this difference, the examiner determined
that it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in
the art at the time the invention was made to have tensioned
Cranko's anchor cable since it was old and well known in the
art.
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