Appeal No. 1997-4072
Application 08/226,010
The first difference is that claim 1 recites nickel
electroplating a multi-filament wire strand. Fujikura
discloses nickel electroplating the individual filaments in
a wire; i.e., Fujikura does not disclose nickel coating the
outside of the pipe 15 after its diameter has been reduced
during manufacture. Kreilick discloses a plurality of
filaments in a matrix that has pure copper surrounding each
superconductor filament and a web of Cu-Ni in the middle in
a honeycomb shape; i.e., Kreilick also does not disclose a
nickel coating on the outside of a multi-filament wire
strand.
We do not find where the Examiner addresses this
difference. The only differences addressed by the Examiner
are the thickness of the nickel coating and the steps of the
electroplating process. While we guess that the Examiner
may be thinking that it would have been obvious to replace
the single superconductor filament in the copper pipe 11 in
Fujikura with multiple filaments in a copper matrix, so that
the nickel plating was on the outside of a multi-filament
wire strand, this reasoning has not been expressed, nor has
any motivation been presented for such a modification.
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