Appeal No. 1998-2537
Application 08/680,602
formed by clamps or the like to maintain the stack in
compressed condition. The stack is then placed in an oven and
cured.
From our evaluation of the disclosure of the
Graham patent as a whole, it is our opinion that the noted
passages above clearly suggest that the depressed center
portion of the lay-ups is formed during the initial cold
pressed molding stage
and not during the subsequent stage of being positioned
between the depressed center metal plates, as the examiner
alleges.
Since the lay-ups are already formed with depressed centers,
it naturally follows that they would then be positioned
between plates with depressed center portions as stated in
Graham col. 9, lines 64 and 65. Moreover, we do not agree
with the examiner’s position (answer, pg. 4) that if “Graham
was using a ‘depressed center mold’ to form the initial green
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