Ex Parte GETHINGS et al - Page 10



                    Appeal No. 2004-2121                                                                                                                                  
                    Application No. 08/160,835                                                                                                                            

                    lines 35-49), would have made it obvious to one of ordinary skill                                                                                     
                    in the art at the time of appellants' invention to utilize a                                                                                          
                    general purpose bomb/shell (6) having a weight of not less than                                                                                       
                    300 pounds in the penetrator bomb of Held.  If the examiner                                                                                           
                    should determine that a rejection of independent claim 1 is                                                                                           
                    appropriate, then the examiner should also consider rejections of                                                                                     
                    dependent claims 2 through 10 relying on prior art references                                                                                         
                    such as Chaumeau, Muller, Kintish and Brauer.                                                                                                         

                                                                      REVERSED and REMANDED                                                                               

                                                  CHARLES E. FRANKFORT                                       )                                                            
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                                                  LAWRENCE J. STAAB                                          )     APPEALS                                                
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                                                  JOHN P. MCQUADE                                            )                                                            
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