Appeal No. 98-1554 Page 9
Application No. 08/586,894
appears not to exist in either of the newly applied references.
This being the case, even assuming, arguendo, that the
secondary references teach what the examiner says they teach
and are properly combinable with Schatz, the teachings of the
three references fail to establish a prima facie case of
obviousness with regard to the subject matter of claims 40 and
41. Moreover, we note in passing that this defect would not be
cured by adding Engineering Materials to this combination in
view of the deficiencies in that reference pointed out above
viz a viz the matter of teaching low heat conducting
capability.
This analysis also applies to the rejection on these same
grounds of claims 22-24 and 26-37, all of which depend from
claim 16.
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