Appeal No. 98-1458 Page 18
Application No. 08/499,211
results relative to the prior art range [citations
omitted].
In the present case, however, the appellants have not
even alleged, much less established, that the claimed
thickness and height produce unexpected results. Therefore,
we are of the opinion that it would have been obvious to one
of ordinary skill in the art at the time of appellants'
invention to have modified Godes' ridge 30 to be about 0.05 to
about 0.20 inch thick and about 0.05 to about 0.40 inch high.
Accordingly, the decision of the examiner to reject claim 6
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is affirmed.
New grounds of rejection
Under the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we enter the
following new grounds of rejection.
1. Claims 11 through 16 and 26 are rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, first paragraph, as the specification, as originally
filed, does not provide support for the invention as is now
claimed. Specifically, the phrase "said second rib wall
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