Appeal No. 2002-0895
Application No. 09/402,552
Appellants rely on the following reference:
Ananthapadmanabhan et al., “Electrical resistivity of plasma-
sprayed titanium diboride coatings,” Journal of Materials
Science, p. 1655 (1993)(hereinafter referred to as
“Ananthapadmanabhan”).1
THE REJECTION
Claims 20 and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over the combined disclosures of Boxall, Mills, and
Gruenr.
OPINION
We have carefully reviewed the claims, specification, and
evidence, including all of the arguments advanced by both the
examiner and the appellants in support of their respective
positions. This review has led us to conclude that the
examiner’s Section 103 rejection is well founded. Accordingly,
we will sustain the examiner’s Section 103 rejection for the
reasons set forth in the Answer and below.
The examiner finds (the Answer, pages 3-4), and we agree,
that:
1 We observe that the appellants have proffered only the
first page of this article. We presume that the remaining pages
of this article are not material to the examination of this
application since the appellants have not submitted them to the
examiner in compliance with 37 CFR § 1.56.
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