Appeal No. 96-3106
Application 08/052,015
2. Rejection of Claim 3 over Sutrina and Granberg
With respect to claim 3, Appellants claim and argue the
feature of ". . . coupling means comprising of a strip of
conductive material disposed on corrugated fin stock." [claim
3 and Brief, page 11]. The Examiner has not specifically
argued
this claim in the Answer. In fact, the Examiner ". . .
concedes that neither reference teaches this material."
[Answer, page 7]. We interpret this feature as being
illustrated by Appellants in figure 5 of their disclosure.
We, too, have not found such a feature in the applied art.
We, therefore, reverse this rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103
over Sutrina and Granberg.
3. Rejection of claims 4 and 5 over Sutrina and
Granberg
In regard to claims 4 and 5, Appellants point to element
96 in figures 2 and 9 respectively and argue that such
features are not shown by either Sutrina or Granberg [Brief,
pages 11 and 12]. The Examiner has not discussed these
features in the Examiner's answer. We have interpreted the
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