Appeal No. 2003-1303 10
Application No. 09/351,166
thereof is intended to be an improvement over the type of drill support arrangement
disclosed in Hakala, we think one of ordinary skill in the art would view the drill support
arrangements of Hakala and Parviainen as being alternative solutions for supporting a
shell drilling device rather than support arrangements whose constituent parts could be
mixed and matched to create a new hybrid drill support arrangement.
In light of the foregoing, we shall not sustain the examiner’s rejection of claims 4,
7 and 10-12 as being unpatentable over Hakala in view of Parviainen.
Conclusion
Each of the standing rejections is reversed.
The decision of the examiner finally rejecting the appealed claims is reversed.
REVERSED
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