Appeal No. 1998-1263
Application No. 08/351,993
Dependent claims 23 and 24 require the coupling of the first
rigid disk to a torque tube and to a steel pressure plate,
respectively.
Apart from the examiner's acknowledgment that the sole
reference to Du Bois is silent on the subject matter of dependent
claims 23 and 24 and opinion that the claimed features would have
been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art, the fact
remains that Du Bois is deficient relative to the content of
independent claim 10 as discussed earlier. Thus, the eleventh
rejection cannot be sustained.
In summary, this panel of the Board has not sustained any of
the eleven rejections on appeal.
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