Appeal No. 95-4733
Application No. 08/091,030
term “greater than” has not been defined in the specification,
the normal meaning of this term is well known and, in
conjunction with the comparative showings of V50 values on
pages 5 and 12 of the specification, would have apprised the
artisan of the scope of appealed claim 1.
Accordingly, the rejection of claims 1-15 under the
second paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 is reversed.
B. The Rejections under § 103
The composite material of appealed claim 1 comprises an
air hardened steel element of a specified composition with a
borosilicate glass fused to a surface of the steel element.
The examiner states that “Okai discloses articles
comprising a steel substrate coated with a layer comprising
borosilicate glass.” (Answer, page 4, emphasis added). The
examiner submits that Okai provides the glass coating to give
the steel substrate improved corrosion resistance (Id.). Thus
the examiner concludes that
Since Okai explicitly discloses applying a layer
comprising borosilicate glass to high strength
steel to impart thereto corrosion resistance, it
would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill
in the art to employ, as the high strength steel,
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