Appeal No. 1998-1772 Page 7
Application No. 08/578,047
into a injection die cavity to form a die casting product as
suggested by Sato's teaching, and (2) maintain a constant
cooling zone in the process of Brooks such that a uniform
fraction of solid in the semi-solid mass is maintained during
the spraying process as suggested by Ashok's teachings.
Implicit in this new ground of rejection is the
examiner's view that the above noted modifications of Brooks
would result in a method which corresponds to the method
recited in claims 1, 2, 4, 11 and 12 in all respects.5
5We note again that claims 2, 4, 11 and 12 were amended
subsequent to the new ground of rejection set forth in the
examiner's answer.
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