Appeal No. 2003-0401
Application 09/490,954
The examiner argues that “[i]t would have been obvious to
one of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was
made to employ the techniques of Prepreg Flipper [the IBM
Technical Disclosure Bulletin] or Benzinger et al to attain a
mirror image arrangement of inverted prepreg multi-axial fabrics
as suggested would have been desirable as evidenced by
Palmer et al when making a skin for an aircraft from the multi-
axial fabrics as suggested by Hunt and Elrod” (answer, page 8).
The appellants argue that there is no suggestion in the
references to combine the references from the aircraft skin-
making art with the references from the printed circuit board art
(brief, page 6).
The examiner responds that “[t]he fact that the artisan was
aware of inversion for the manufacture of a skin for an aircraft
allowed the ordinary artisan to look to suitable inversion
operations to form mirror image structures whether it be from the
skin manufacture art or not” (answer, page 13), and that
“production of plural skins of wings of aircraft in mass
production would have clearly entailed the cutting and assembly
of multiple plies of the multiaxial fabrics and one skilled in
the art in light of the teachings of Benzinger and Prepreg
Flipper would have understood that only a single supply of
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