Appeal No. 1999-0899
Application No. 08/654,752
the examiner's rejection of claim 19. The rejection of this
claim will therefore be summarily sustained.
REJECTION (2)
The Strapazzini patent discloses a method of making an
instrument panel (dashboard (col. 5, line 51)) in which the
panel is formed in a mold 35, 37, using a skin material 18 and
plastic material. As shown in Fig. 16, the upper mold half 37
may include a sub-cavity portion 41 for molding a bracket
integrally with the substrate (col. 4, lines 64 to 67).
On page 4 of the brief, the examiner recognizes that
Strapazzini differs from the method recited in claim 13 in
that:
Strapazzini does not disclose that the bracket has
at least one perforation, providing a protrusion in
a bracket formation portion with a size
corresponding to the at least one perforation, and
the other mold having a corresponding concavity for
receiving the protrusion.
However, the examiner then finds that:
regarding the limitation that the bracket have at
least one perforation, it is well-known and
conventional practice to provide brackets with some
form of perforation such that the brackets can
perform the function for which they are
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