Ex parte SCHNEIDER - Page 2




                 Appeal No. 98-2559                                                                                                                     
                 Application 08/633,101                                                                                                                 




                          Appellant’s invention pertains to a method for casting a                                                                      
                 composite article.  An understanding of the invention can be                                                                           
                 derived from a reading of exemplary claim 10, as it appears in                                                                         
                 the amendment filed May 6, 1997 (Paper No. 7).                                     2                                                   


                          As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the                                                                      
                 document specified below:                                                                                                              


                 Kawai et al                                  63-242461                                    Oct. 7, 1988                                 
                 Japan (Kawai)3                                                                                                                         

                          The following rejection is before us for review.                                                                              


                          Claims 10 through 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §                                                                         
                 103(a) as being unpatentable over Kawai (Japan 63-242461).                                                                             




                          2The copy of the claim in the APPENDIX to the main brief                                                                      
                 was not an accurate copy of claim 10.                                                                                                  
                          3Our understanding of this foreign language document is                                                                       
                 derived from a reading of a translation thereof prepared in                                                                            
                 the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the                                                                           
                 translation is appended to this opinion.                                                                                               
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