Appeal No. 2003-1499
Application No. 09/531,872
welds or structural forming, nor established why the absence of
assembly welds and structural forming would have been obvious to
one of ordinary skill in this art (see the Answer in its entirety).
Therefore, in view of our claim construction set forth above, we
determine that the examiner has failed to establish a prima facie
case of obviousness in view of the reference evidence.
Accordingly, we cannot sustain the examiner’s rejection of claims
1-12 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) over Arya in view of Girard.
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