Appeal No. 1996-2530
Application 08/246,324
Specification, p. 9. Appellants seek to make "ceramic
powders for use as starting powders for high technology
ceramics" (spec. p. 2). Read in light of this
disclosure, the claimed process produces and recovers
powders composed of small particles. Looking now at
Wood, it discloses rigid ceramic foam structures usable
as
nuclear reactor components, filters, acoustical
insulators, electrical insulators and thermal
insulators, noise suppressors or mufflers,
components of aircraft and missiles, radomes,
circuit bases, wave guides, combustion ports, rocket
nozzles and vanes, base support structure for
ablation materials, heat exchangers for vehicle
afterburners and the like.
Column 7, line 65 to column 8, line 4. Comparing the two
- the small particle powder of the claims and the
structures of Wood - there is no question that they refer
to two completely different things. For this reason, we
are unpersuaded by Examiner's argument to the contrary.
Examiner's second argument is equally without merit.
Common sense dictates that a structure of the type Wood
is making (e.g., filters, components of aircraft, etc.)
is not
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