Appeal No. 2006-0132
Application No. 09/946,627
REJECTION 8)
As evidence of obviousness of the subject matter defined by
claims 10 and 27 under section 103(a), the examiner relies on the
combined disclosures of Breuer, Abildskov, Campbell, Childress
and/or Boyce, and Barnes. The disclosures of Breuer, Abildskov,
Campbell, Childress and Boyce are discussed above. The examiner
appears to acknowledge that these references do not mention using
over-presses against the outer surfaces of the legs and base of
the pi-shape pre-form. See the Answer, page 19.
To remedy this deficiency, the examiner takes Official
Notice at page 19 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,
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