Appeal No. 2003-0401
Application 09/490,954
multiaxial fabric was required in [sic, to] make many of the
laminated, mirror image products” (answer, page 15). The
examiner, however, has not provided evidence that those of
ordinary skill in the art considered inversion operations used to
make printed circuit board laminates to be applicable to the
manufacture of aircraft skins. Moreover, the examiner’s
conclusion is based upon the premise that one of ordinary skill
in the art would have combined the references, regardless of the
above-discussed differences in the structure and function of the
multilayered sheets, merely because the multilayered sheet in
each of the references can be called a mirror image structure.
The examiner has not provided support for that premise.
The examiner argues that “[t]here is simply no reason to
believe one skilled in the art at the time the invention was made
would not have been led to cut portions from a single supply and
invert these cut portions particularly in light of the
neutralization of residual stresses in the fabrics (as suggested
by Prepreg Flipper) and the need for formation of only a single
stock material of half the final thickness of the laminate from
which the laminate can be made (Benzinger)” (answer, page 16).
This argument is not well taken because, first, the examiner has
not established that one of ordinary skill in the art would have
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