Appeal No. 98-0455
Application 08/467,247
Before ABRAMS, FRANKFORT and NASE, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 1 through 8. Subsequent to the
final rejection in a paper filed April 7, 1997 (Paper No. 16),
appellants canceled claims 1, 2, 5 and 6, and amended claim 8
to be dependent from claim 7. Accordingly, the only claims
remaining in this application for our consideration on appeal
are claims 3, 4, 7 and 8.
The subject matter on appeal is directed to a system
and method of loading large parts onto a floor assembly jig
which holds said parts in position for fastening together to
make a large mechanical structure, such as a wing spar assem-
bly for a large aircraft. The floor assembly jig (32) is best
seen in Figure 1 of the application, while the parts loading
system comprising the subject matter before us on appeal is
shown somewhat schematically in Figures 12 and 13. A copy of
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