Appeal No. 2000-1296 Page 5
Application No. 08/794,869
1596, 1598 (Fed. Cir. 1988) and In re Lintner, 458 F.2d 1013,
1016, 173 USPQ 560, 562 (CCPA 1972).
Claim 1, the sole independent claim on appeal, reads as
follows:
A dispensing device for a coating material, the
dispensing device including an outer portion including a
first, inner surface, the outer portion having a central
passageway for mounting the outer portion on a rotary
shaft for rotating the dispensing device, and an inner
portion having a second, outer surface shaped
complementarily to the first surface and a somewhat bell-
or cup-shaped third, inner surface, and means for
retaining the inner portion in the outer portion with the
first and second surfaces in engagement.
In the rejection before us in this appeal (answer, pp. 3-
4), the examiner set forth the pertinent teachings of Chabert
and Woodson. In addition, the examiner stated that "Chabert
does not show an inner portion having a second outer surface
shaped complementarily to the inner surface of the outer
portion." Thereafter, the examiner concluded that
[i]t would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in
the art at the time the invention was made to have added
an inner portion of complementarily shape to the outer
portion of Chabert's dispensing device so as to be able
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