Appeal No. 97-2414
Application 08/417,303
5). Claims 1 through 19 are all of the claims pending in the
application.
Appellants’ invention relates to a cold plate for use in
a thermal management system and to a method of thermal
management using said cold plate. Independent claims 1 and 17
are represen-tative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy
of those claims appears in the Appendix to appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Valyi 3,396,782 Aug. 13, 1968
Chao-Fan Chu et al. (Chao-Fan Chu) 5,170,319 Dec. 08,
1992
Suzumura2 1-247991 Oct. 03, 1989
(Japanese Kokai)
Claims 1, 4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17 and 18 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Chao-Fan Chu in
view of Valyi. On pages 4 and 5 of the final rejection, the
Our understanding of this foreign language document is based on a2
translation prepared for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of that
translation is attached to this decision.
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