Appeal 2006-1207
Application 10/354,491
The Examiner entered the following new ground of rejection:
Claim 23 stands alternatively rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Wilhelm and Dempster and further in view of either
Funatsu, Yamuchi or Betteridge.
OPINION
For the reasons set forth below, we sustain the rejections of claims 14,
15, 17, 18, 21, and 22 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) over Wilhelm and of claims
15, 16, 20 and 24 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) over Wilhelm in combination
with Dempster. We will not sustain the rejection of claims 19 and 23 under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Wilhelm in view of Dempster
and of claim 23 over Wilhelm and Dempster and further in view of either
Funatsu, Yamuchi or Betteridge.
ANTICIPATORY REJECTION OVER WILHELM
Claims 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, and 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Wilhelm.
Wilhelm is directed to “corrosion protection on the weld joints of
plastic-coated steel pipes, which, however, have no coating in the area of the
weld joints, whereby laminates of fiber-reinforced, cured unsaturated
polyester resin are applied to the uncoated area, and whereby the laminates
overlap the plastic-coated area” (Translation 2). In Wilhelm, pipes
precoated with plastic and having uncoated ends are welded together
(Translation 8). Once welded, “mats saturated with resin . . .[are] applied to
the steel pipe and then the resin is cured” (id.). The resins used by Wilhelm
are cold curing resins and photocuring resins (Translation 9). Wilhelm also
discloses partially embedding reinforcement glass fibers in the pipe’s plastic
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