Appeal 2007-3994
Application 10/072,906
Claim 27 illustrates Appellants’ invention of a method of
manufacturing a metal reactor cell, and is representative of the claims on
appeal:
27. A method of manufacturing a metal reactor cell that has
overlapping corrugated sheets and a housing, the method comprising the
steps of preoxidizing the overlapping corrugated sheets, and after the
preoxidizing step joining the preoxidized sheets simultaneously to each other
and to at least part of the housing by resistance welding.
The Examiner relies upon the evidence in these references:
Cairns GB 1 546 097 May 16, 1979
Chapman US 4,331,631 May 25, 1982
Kono US 5,403,558 Apr. 4, 1995
Usui US 5,620,666 Apr. 15, 1997
Matsumoto US 6,288,008 B1 Sep. 11, 2001
Appellants request review of the following grounds of rejection
advanced on appeal1 (Br. 2-3):
claims 27, 30 and 31 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable over Usui in
view of Kono (Answer 42);
claims 27, 30 and 31 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable over
Matsumoto in view of Kono (id. 5);
claims 28 and 29 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable over Usui or
Matsumoto in view of Kono as applied to claim 27, further in view of
Chapman and Cairns (id. 5); and
claims 27 through 30 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as failing to
comply with the written description requirement (id. 6).
1 The ground of rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, is
withdrawn by the Examiner (Answer 3).
2 The Examiner modified the first and second grounds of rejection under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) by withdrawing Chapman (Answer 2-3).
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