Appeal No. 2006-2104
Application No. 10/655,904
Furthermore, the detector element of Ichikawa is actually
comprised of the entire stacked arrangement of the fibers F as
shown in the Figures wherein the overall thickness of the “body”
as determined by the total diameter of one or more fibers could
be about 400 micrometers.
With respect to claims 7 and 8, Appellant’s arguments are
again premised on a limited interpretation of the claimed “SiC
body” having a particular shape (brief, pages 10-11; reply brief,
pages 1-2). As discussed above, the claimed “SiC body” could
take any shape or configuration such that the claims, as argued
by the Examiner (answer, page 6), read on the uniform thickness
of the fibers in Ichikawa. Additionally, we observe that the
body of SiC disclosed by Ichikawa further includes rows of
multiple fibers or filaments which collectively form a body with
flat surface and uniform thickness (Figures 1a-1b).
With respect to claims 14-18, Appellant argues the same
points that were previously presented in their rebuttal of the
rejection of claim 1. As discussed above with respect to claim
1, modifying Ichikawa to arrive at the claimed thickness range
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art.
Additionally, we observe that Ichikawa discloses a body of SiC
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