Appeal No. 2003-0401
Application 09/490,954
been reasonably ascertainable by one of ordinary skill in the
art, and no such reason is apparent. Accordingly, we reverse the
rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph.
Rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103
Both of the appellants’ independent claims require that a
length of multi-axial fabric having at least three differently
oriented fiber layers is formed into shaped pieces, and that a
piece is inverted and placed upon another piece.
The examiner relies upon figures 3A and 3B of Hunt for a
teaching that it was known in the art to arrange a mirror image
of a plurality of prepreg plies about a plane of symmetry when
forming an aircraft wing (answer, page 5).
The examiner relies upon figures 3, 4, 7 and 8, and
column 7, lines 29-66 of Elrod for a suggestion to use woven
bi-axial or tri-axial fabrics instead of prepreg unidirectional
plies to make an aircraft wing structure (answer, pages 5-6).
The examiner relies upon column 3, lines 51-55, column 4,
lines 42-49, column 9, lines 24-57, and figure 3 of Palmer for a
suggestion to invert a multi-axial fabric and stitch it to
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