Appeal No. 1999-0444
Application No. 08/758,655
Claim 21 is representative of the subject matter on
appeal and is reproduced below:
21. A one-trip well completion method, comprising:
running in a perforating gun and a packer on tubing;
setting the packer;
automatically releasing said gun from said packer as
a result of setting said packer;
firing said perforating gun;
using pressure, physical movement or acoustical
signaling or a combination thereof to set said packer
and fire said perforating gun;
removing said gun from the wellbore.
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Leutwyler et al. (Leutwyler ‘803) 3,398,803 Aug.
27, 1968
Upchurch (Upchurch ‘722) 4,896,722 Jan.
30, 1990
Rubbo et al. (Rubbo ‘793) 4,949,793 Aug. 21,
1990
Crawford (Crawford ‘642) 5,029,642 Jul.
9, 1991
Rubbo et al. (Rubbo ‘494) 5,226,494 Jul. 13,
1993
Council et al. (Council ‘046) 5,244,046 Sep.
14, 1993
Ross (Ross ‘860) 5,392,860 Feb. 28,
1995
Owens et al. (Owens ‘316) 5,456,316 Oct. 10,
1995
(filed Apr. 25, 1994)
As stated in the final rejection (Paper No. 9), claims
21-23, 25, 33-35 and 37 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
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