Appeal No. 1999-1748
Application 08/846,285
independent form including all of the limitations of the base
claim and any intervening claims. Accordingly, this panel of the
board has claims 1 through 5, 7 through 13, 19 through 22, 24
through 29, and 35 through 38 before us for review.
As a preliminary matter, it is pointed out that, based upon
circumstances of record (Paper No. 16), we appropriately had to
vacate (Paper No. 17) a prior decision in this appeal. The
present decision timewise follows the oral hearing held on
October 8, 2002, and takes into account the content of
appellants’ reply brief filed May 19, 1999.
The invention on appeal relates to a method of igniting
exothermic weld metal material and to an electrical ignitor for
exothermic material. A basic understanding of the invention can
be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1 and 19,
respective copies of which appear in APPENDIX “A” of the main
brief (Paper No. 13).
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