Appeal No. 2000-1799
Application 09/211,473
OPINION
We reverse the prior art rejection of claims 1-11 and 59,
affirm the prior art rejection of claims 12-14 and 58, affirm the
rejection of claims 58 and 59 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, and set forth an amendment to claim 59 under 37 CFR
§ 1.196(c).
Prior art rejection of claims 1-11 and 59
We need to address only claim 1, which is the sole
independent claim among claims 1-11 and 59.
Seibold discloses a method for producing a composite
material by impregnating a fibrous reinforcement with a solution
of a resin in a solvent to create a resin-impregnated fiber
material, heating the resin-impregnated fiber material under
vacuum at elevated temperature under conditions and for a period
sufficient to thermally strip out the solvent and assure
substantially complete impregnation of the resin into the fibrous
reinforcement, until substantially all of the solvent has been
removed and the resin commences to gel, at which point the resin-
impregnated fiber material can contain typically about 35 to
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enablement requirement, and claims 1-14 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, are
withdrawn in the examiner’s answer (page 2).
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