Appeal No. 2005-2393
Application No. 10/228,392
artisan with ordinary skill to determine workable or even optimum
proportions or lengths of the metal tip sections for given total
shaft lengths to obtain desired flex ranges since such
proportions and lengths are shown to be result effective
variables. In re Boesch, 617 F.2d 272, 276, 205 USPQ 215, 219
(CCPA 1980). This is especially true in this case since Pompa
and Whitaker, by virtue of suggesting the desirability of
decreasing the lengths of the metal tip sections as the overall
lengths of the shafts are increasing, would have directed one of
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