Appeal No. 2002-0049 Page 16
Application No. 09/317,538
production, extremely accurate chamfer), it is our conclusion that it would have been
obvious at the time the invention was made to a person of ordinary skill in the art to
have formed the chamfers in Abe's female die plate according to the method and
apparatus suggested and taught by Dombrowski's edge contouring system.
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the examiner to reject claim 1
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is affirmed.
Claims 5 and 6
The appellant has grouped claims 1, 5 and 6 as standing or falling together.9
Thereby, in accordance with 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7), claims 5 and 6 falls with claim 1.
Thus, it follows that the decision of the examiner to reject claims 5 and 6 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 is also affirmed.
Claims 2 and 7
We will not sustain the rejection of claims 2 and 7 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Claims 2 and 7 both include the step of generating a machining path
approximately equivalent to a shape defined by at least one aperture extending through
the tool, shifted in the first direction by a predetermined distance. We agree with the
9 See page 6 of the appellant's brief.
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