Appeal No. 2001-0025
Application No. 08/751,980
or all through-bores for the respective hollow rivets and
isolation parts. As such, we are constrained to reverse the
rejection of claims 29 and 30.
The rejection of claims 13, 14, and 31
We sustain the rejection of claim 13. We also sustain
the rejection of claims 14 and 31 since these claims stand or
fall with claim 13 as mentioned above.
Claim 13 addresses “open through bores” interposed along
radially extending channels between rows of pins.
As seen in appellant’s Figs. 1 through 3, friction rings
2,3 have “through-bores 7” (specification, page 4, line 3).
Fig. 2 shows a distribution of pins 30 with through-bores 7
therebetween.
From our perspective, it would have been obvious to one
having ordinary skill in the art, at the time of appellant’s
invention, to provide the two annular disks of JP ‘327 with
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