Appeal No. 2002-2050
Application No. 08/973,019
a corona discharge in the region immediately adjacent the
exterior surface of the winding 10" (see column 4, lines 37-42).
Likewise, Elton describes Figure 7 as "a cable utilizing a semi-
conducting pyrolyzed glass fiber layer to equalize the electric
charge on the exterior of the insulator of the cable" (see column
7, lines 12-15).
Similarly, the description of Figure 6 includes an internal
grading layer 79 of semi-conducting pyrolized glass fiber that
"provides an equal electrical potential about the end regions of
electrical winding 70." Likewise, Elton describes Figure 7 as a
cable with "a semi-conducting layer utilized as an internal
grading layer surrounding the conductors within the cable" and
explains that the internal grading layer "equalizes the electric
charge about conductive strands 102" (see column 7, lines 12-17
and 19-22).
Appellant contends that the statement on page 16 of our
decision that "the previous Board decision somehow explained 'why
one of ordinary skill in the art would have been motivated to
combine the references' is not well taken as this decision admits
it departs from and modifies that decision to such a degree that
it is, in effect, a new decision." We designated the decision of
April 16, 2003 a new decision because the response to appellant's
arguments was modified. However, we have consistently indicated
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