Appeal No. 1999-0875 Application No. 08/467,353 been obvious to combine the teachings of the prior art, the combination does not meet all the elements of the claims. Kubo’s porous body cannot be a means for altering stresses in the body 7, 15 of Nakata because the dehydrogenation process which causes a size reduction of the porous body would have occurred before it was placed in the cavity 11 of Nakata’s body of solid material 7, 15. REVERSED 6–Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007