Appeal No. 2002-0694
Application No. 08/712,369
REMAND TO THE EXAMINER
We remand this application to the examiner to consider a
rejection of appellants' claims based upon the combined teachings
of Slick and the Chapter 19 documentation of record. The
examiner should determine whether it would have been obvious to
one having ordinary skill in the art, at the time appellants'
invention was made, to select cold rolling from among the known
hot rolling and cold rolling method alternatives (Chapter 19
documentation) when fabricating the rolled steel center sill of
Slick to achieve the desired, known, and expected advantages of
the cold rolling method that would be reflected in the
characteristics of the resulting center sill. As to the chosen
particular parameters and configuration for a cold worked center
sill (dependent claims), the examiner should determine whether
these features would have been obvious to one having ordinary
skill in the center sill and beam art, relying upon relevant and
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because of the matter with which it deals, logically would have
commended itself to an inventor's attention in considering his
problem. In re Clay, 966 F.2d 656, 659, 23 USPQ2d 1058, 1061
(Fed. Cir. 1992).
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