Appeal No. 2002-0612
Application No. 09/254,631
end face 38 of expansion sleeve 12 function to form a “hard seal”
with the adjacent shoulder 28 of the passage.
We therefore also cannot sustain the standing rejection of
claims 21-30 as being unpatentable over Arnold in view of Pierce
and Lee.
III. Conclusion.
Each of the examiner’s rejections is reversed.
The decision of the examiner is reversed.
REVERSED
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