Appeal No. 2006-0132
Application No. 09/946,627
REJECTION 4)
As evidence of obviousness of the subject matter defined by
claim 27 under section 103(a), the examiner relies on the
combined teachings of Wanthal, Campbell and Barnes. The
disclosures of Wanthal and Campbell are discussed above. The
examiner appears to acknowledge that Wanthal and Campbell do not
mention using over-presses in the claimed manner prior to curing
the resin in a pre-form. See the Answer, page 13.
To remedy this deficiency, the examiner takes official
notice at page 13 of the Answer that:
It is well known in the art when curing structural
laminates to provide over-presses that are at least
semi-rigid against the outer surfaces of the pre-form
in order to distribute force across the outer surfaces
of the pre-form.
Consistent with the official notice, the examiner also finds
(id.) that:
Barnes discloses a method of curing a structural member
by providing an at least semi-rigid over-press
(silicone rubber blocks 221) against the outer surface
of a pre-form (body sheet 53) in order to cause the
over-press to press the perform against the other
structural assembly parts (see figure 25; column 8,
lines 30-035, column 9, lines 14-33).
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