Appeal No. 1997-2248
Application No. 08/378,513
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ratchet drive assembly 40 disposed within an opening 38 in the
head portion 28 of the body, and a metal reinforcing bar
64 embedded in the handle portion 34 of the body.
Flonc discloses a method of stabilizing complex composite
preforms 3 composed of stacked layers 1 of fiber-reinforced
resin wherein an uncatalyzed thermosetting resin 4 is used to
temporarily bond the layers together in rigid assembly. The
rigid assembly is then disposed in a mold cavity, injected
with a catalyzed thermosetting resin 11 and heated to a curing
temperature.
As is evident from the foregoing, Bonnes, Kipp, Cooper
and Flonc pertain to diverse items and methods. Given the
disparate nature of these references, it is apparent that the
examiner has engaged in an impermissible hindsight
reconstruction of the inventions recited in claims 9 and 14 by
using these claims as blueprints to selectively piece together
isolated disclosures in the prior art. The hindsight nature
of the proposed reference combinations is clearly reflected by
the fundamental changes that would have to be made to the
Bonnes method to arrive at the claimed invention.
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