Appeal No. 1998-3289 Application 08/362,167 The examiner does not dispute the characterization in appellants’ tabulation (main brief, page 5) to the effect that the reference teachings are “silent” with respect to the parameters D, T, and L and any relationship therebetween. Instead, the examiner asserts (answer, page 4), for example, that the relationship set forth in claim 1 is disclosed when each of the reference drawings (not to scale) has been “measured by a ruler”, since “it would appear that this relationship is 5Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007