Appeal No. 2006-0132
Application No. 09/946,627
recourse to the teachings in the appellants' disclosure. See,
e.g., Pro-Mold & Tool Co. v. Great Lakes Plastics, Inc., 75 F.3d
1568, 1573, 37 USPQ2d 1626, 1629-30 (Fed. Cir. 1996). The
knowledge generally available to a person having ordinary skill
in the art includes facts admittedly well known in the art.
In re Nomiya, 509 F.2d 566, 570-71, 184 USPQ 607, 611-12 (CCPA
1975)(The admitted prior art in the appellants' specification may
be used in determining the patentability of a claimed
invention.); see also In re Davis, 305 F.2d 501, 503, 134 USPQ
256, 258 (CCPA 1962).
REJECTION 1)
As evidence of obviousness of the subject matter defined by
claims 1, 2, 4, 6, 16 and 17, the examiner relies on the combined
disclosures of Wanthal and Campbell. According to the examiner
(the Answer, pages 7-9):
Wanthal discloses a method of bonding a woven pre-
form (woven 3-d textile preform, page 2) to a composite
component (pre-preg tape) by providing a woven pi-
shaped pre-form having a base and a pair of spaced
apart legs that extend from the base and define a slot
having inner surfaces (pi shaped), the pre-form being
infused with uncured resin (resin infused; page 13),
placing the base of the pre-form adjacent a surface of
a composite component that is infused with an incurred
resin (pre-preg; page 13), inserting a plurality of
pins extending into the base (Z-pins inserted into the
pre-form flange), then curing the resin in the pre-form
and the component (co-curing, autoclaved cured; page
13).
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