Appeal No. 2004-0453
Application No. 09/828,019
newly manufactured. This appealed subject matter is adequately illustrated by
independent claim 19, which reads as follows:
19. A turbine nozzle segment comprising:
an outer band;
an inner band; and
first and second vanes disposed between said outer and inner bands,
wherein said first vane and contiguous portions of said outer and
inner bands define a first section of said nozzle segment and said
second vane and respectively contiguous portions of said outer
and inner bands define a second section of said nozzle segment,
said first section being previously used and said second section
being newly manufactured.
Claims 19 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable
of Lee in view of Mendham, and claim 21 stands correspondingly rejected as being
unpatentable over these references and further in view of Rasch.1
Rather than reiterate the respective positions advocated by the appellants and by
the examiner concerning these rejections, we refer to the Brief and to the Answer (as well
as to the Final Office Action) for a complete exposition thereof.
OPINION
For the reasons which follow, we will sustain each of the rejections before us.
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2On Page 3 of the Brief, the appellants indicate that the appealed claims are grouped
pursuant to the manner in which they have been rejected. Accordingly, in our dis-
position of this appeal, we will consider each of the arguments advanced against the
examiner’s rejections.
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