The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 25
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte BRIAN L. RIEDEL, JOHN T. STRUNK
and RANDALL R. CLARK
Appeal No. 2004-0568
Application No. 09/229,547
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, OWENS and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 3 and
8-19. Claims 5-7 stand withdrawn from consideration. Claims 3,
8 and 13 are illustrative:
3. A method of forming and installing an acoustic panel
having a backside laminate ply build-up area to an aircraft
structure without loss of acoustic area comprising the steps of:
increasing the backside laminate ply build-up area
thickness in the region of blind fastener attachments of said
acoustic panel to react bearing loads and provide stiffness for
bending to retain a plurality of blind fasteners; and then
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