Appeal No. 98-2559
Application 08/633,101
Styrofoam layer gradually disappears, delaying contact with
the core (bubbled body of aluminum), and without melting and
deforming of the core.
The examiner is of the view that since the purpose of the
Kawai invention was to produce a lightweight composite, it
would have been obvious to preform the core with a nonporous
skin to prevent molten metal from infiltrating the pores
during the casting process (final rejection, Paper No. 8; page
4 of the answer, Paper No. 11).
Setting aside what appellant has taught us in the present
application, it is clear that the applied Kawai teaching alone
would not have provided one having ordinary skill in the art
with a suggestion for preforming a nonporous skin on the core
1 of the reference. Since the only evidence of obviousness
before us would not have been suggestive of the claimed
invention, we must reverse the rejection of appellant’s claims
under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
In summary, this panel of the board has reversed the
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