Appeal No. 2006-1678
Application No. 10/677,869
a High Velocity Oxy-Fuel combustion thermal spray process, a
wire arc thermal spray process, a vacuum plasma thermal spray
process, a flame spray thermal process, or a radio frequency
plasma thermal spray process thereby, filling the defect and
repairing the defect.
The examiner relies upon the following references in the
rejections of the appealed claims:
Brogan 20020110682 A1 Aug. 15, 2002
Fuller et al. (Fuller) 6,743,468 B2 Jun. 1, 2004
(filed Apr. 17, 2003)
Appellants' claimed invention is directed to a method for
repairing a defect in a kinetically sprayed surface by applying
a repair coating to the defect by thermally spraying a molten
material on the defect by a process including a High Velocity
Oxy-Fuel combustion thermal spray process.
Appealed claims 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, and 15 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by
Fuller. Claims 1-4, 6-8, 10-12, and 14-16 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Brogan.1
Appellants have not presented separate arguments that are
reasonably specific to any particular claim on appeal.
Accordingly, the two groups of claims separately rejected by the
examiner stand or fall together.
1 The examiner has withdrawn the § 103 rejections based on Fuller (see page 3
of Answer).
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