Appeal No. 1999-1748
Application 08/846,285
capable of creating a spark plasma on both side of the thin film
device and broadcasting spark plasma a substantial distance in at
least one direction. As above, and like the examiner (answer,
page 7), we have viewed the shaped configuration of the thin film
device of Dahn as capable of creating a spark plasma on both
sides thereof (claim 26). With respect to combination claims 28
and 29, we perceive that the intimate contact teaching (column 2,
lines 66 through 69) of Dahn would have been suggestive to those
having ordinary skill in the art of a perforation distortion
adjacent to and immersed in exothermic material. Finally,
relative to claims 35 through 39, we are of the view that one
having ordinary skill, comprehending the teaching of holes (Figs.
1 and 2) formed by the removal of beads of different shapes such
as spheres and fibers by Dahn (column 1, lines 63 and 64 and
column 2, lines 24 through 26), would have considered this
teaching as reasonably suggestive of a perforation distortion at
a single site or multiple sites, and of holes having
substantially equal or unequal characteristics as broadly
claimed.
The arguments advanced by appellants in the main (pages 15
and 16) and reply briefs fail to persuade us as to error on the
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