Appeal No. 1998-1533 Page 22
Application No. 08/411,202
two laterally spaced portions" while parent claim 5 recites
that the friction pad members have an upper portion having an
upper width which is less than a lower width of a lower
portion. Second, we see no reason, absent the use of
impermissible hindsight, a person having ordinary skill in the
art would have found it obvious to have further modified the
teachings of Hummel and Feldmann as combined together above
with respect to claim 5 by forming each friction pad member in
at least two laterally spaced portions wherein the upper width
in total of each friction pad member is less than about 1/12
of a circumferential length of the disc rotor as set forth in
parent claim 5.
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claim 6 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
New ground of rejection
Under the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we enter the
following new ground of rejection.
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