Appeal No. 2002-0544
Application No. 09/095,157
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
Examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Fujii et al. (Fujii) EP 0726239 A2 Aug. 14, 1996
(European Application)
Gessner G. Hawley (Hawley), “Condensed Chemical Dictionary,”
Tenth Edition, 1981, page 506.
Claims 1-5 and 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Fujii in view of Hawley.
Rather than reiterate the viewpoints of the Examiner and
Appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make
reference to the answer (Paper No. 24, mailed May 7, 2001) for
the Examiner’s reasoning, and to the brief (Paper No. 23, filed
March 9, 2001) and the reply brief (Paper No. 25, filed July 9,
2001) for Appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Appellants acknowledge that Fujii describes a joined ceramic
structure including a brazing material which has any of copper,
nickel and aluminum as its main component that joins the metallic
and the ceramic members (brief, page 4). However, Appellants
argue that although molybdenum is mentioned by Fujii as a
possible metal for the metallic member, there is no discussion of
any potential problems that need to be overcome (brief, page 5).
Appellants point out that the mere fact that gold is a non-
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