Appeal No. 1999-1057
Application No. 08/848,719
In summary, this panel of the board has procedurally
reversed each of the examiner's rejections under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) and 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). Additionally, we have
entered a NEW GROUND OF REJECTION in accordance with 37 CFR
1.196(b).
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Buyze and Tait. Together, these references reveal the
knowledge in the brake disk art of the alternatives of a more
permanent connection (welding, brazing, adhesives) for
assembling separately fabricated components of a disk brake
(Buyze) and of a less permanent connection (bolts and rivets)
for assembling separately fabricated components of a brake
disc (Tait). Considering the overall knowledge in the art
reflected by the Buyze and Tait references, the examiner
should evaluate, for example, whether it would have been
obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art to replace the
individual brake plates 12 of Buyze with a pair of individual
carbon-carbon annular friction facings 12, 13, as disclosed by
Tait.
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