Appeal No. 97-1156 Application 08/192,270 This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 30 through 48. These claims constitute all of the claims remaining in the application. The invention on appeal relates to a ceramic-metal composite assembly. An understanding thereof can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 30, a copy of which appears in “APPENDIX A” to the main brief (Paper No. 19). As evidence, the examiner has relied upon the references listed below: Ito et al. 4,557,704 Dec. 10, 1985 (Ito ‘704) Ito et al. 5,073,085 Dec. 17, 1991 (Ito ‘085) Yoshikawa et al. 5,129,784 Jul. 14, 1992 (Yoshikawa) Oda et al. 250,118 Dec. 23, 1987 (Oda) (published European Patent Application) The following rejections of the examiner are before us for review. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007