Appeal No. 2002-1837
Application 09/315,411
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a method of completing a wellbore.
Claims 14 and 15, as well as their parent claims 1 and 13, read
as follows:
1. A method of completing a well, comprising:
running in a tubular string into a cased borehole;
expanding a portion of said tubular into supporting contact
with the casing;
delivering a sealing material through at least one opening
in said tubular, with said tubular so supported;
closing off said opening.
13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
using full circumferential contact for said supporting
contact.
14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:
providing a valve with said opening;
operating said valve to close off said opening.
15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:
providing a sliding sleeve on said tubular string as said
valve.
THE REJECTION
Claims 14 and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
paragraph, “as containing subject matter which was not described
in the specification in such a way as to enable one skilled in
the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly
connected, to make and/or use the invention” (final rejection,
page 2).
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