Appeal No. 1998-1226
Application No. 08/420,330
this record, the examiner has not presented any convincing
evidence of the masterbatching technique for carbon fibers,
much less carbon fibrils, i.e., the addition of higher than
desired amounts of carbon to an elastomer followed by
compounding with additional elastomer to produce the desired
concentration of carbon.
For the foregoing reason, we cannot sustain the
examiner’s rejection including Nabeta. Accordingly, the
rejection of claims 34-36, 39, 40 and 42 under section 103
over Tennent in view of Geus, Tomoda and Nabeta is reversed.
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