Appeal No. 1999-2245
Application No. 08/705,388
suggestive of a plurality of blades extending out from and
circumferentially distributed around a canted catch surface in
a seal between first and second rotatable turbine spools, as
now claimed. Only appellant teaches and suggests the
cooperative structural connection of a plurality of blades
with a canted catch surface. It is for this reason that the
rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
In summary, this panel of the board has:
reversed the rejection of claims 11 and 12 under 35
U.S.C.
§ 112, second paragraph, as being indefinite; and
reversed the rejection of claims 11 and 12 under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Schweich in view of Wolff.
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