Ex Parte CADDELL et al - Page 6

          Appeal No. 2003-0455                                                        
          Application No. 09/438,969                                                  


          portions of vane clusters and combination of salvaged portions to           
          form remanufactured components”); and column 2, lines 9-12 (“A              
          principal advantage of the invention is the ability to produce low          
          cost vane clusters from undamaged components of damaged clusters”).         
               For these reasons, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C.         
          § 103(a) rejection of claims 1-18 as being unpatentable over AAPA.          
               The decision of the examiner is reversed.                              
                                       REVERSED                                       



                         IRWIN CHARLES COHEN           )                              
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                                                       ) BOARD OF PATENT              
                         LAWRENCE J. STAAB             )     APPEALS                  
                         Administrative Patent Judge   )       AND                    
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                         JOHN P. MCQUADE               )                              
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