Appeal No. 2001-1385 Page 2
Application No. 09/275,132
to the appellant's brief. Claim 1, the sole independent claim
on appeal, reads as follows.
1. A method for prototyping parts in preparation
for production manufacturing of the parts by
stamping dies from a sheet metal blank having spaced
edges comprising the steps of:
forming a plurality of longitudinally aligned
slots by laser cutting through the sheet metal blank
so that said slots form a bend line extending
between two spaced edges of the sheet metal blank,
said slots extending entirely through said sheet
metal blank thereby forming openings in said sheet
metal blank,
bending the sheet metal blank along said bend
line to form the prototype.
The examiner relied upon the following prior art
references of record in rejecting the appealed claims:
David 3,938,657 Feb. 17, 1976
Mohan 5,148,900 Sep. 22, 1992
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 1 and 3-5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over David in view of Mohan.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellant regarding the above-noted
rejection, we make reference to the answer (Paper No. 11) for
the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection
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