Appeal 2007-1893
Application 10/946,753
growth. Such additional control of direction could employ devices that can
be automatically controlled, thus augmenting the mechanical
orientation/length control with automatically-controlled devices.
Shin Anticipates Claim 7
Claim 7 is rejected under 35 USC 102(b) as being anticipated by Shin.
The scope and breadth of the claim does not preclude the catalyst 18 which
is surrounded by the topological structure (sidewall of aperture 16) as best
seen in Figure 4 of Shin. As shown in that figure, the sidewall structure
encompasses or surrounds the catalyst 18 (i.e., the rectangle in the enlarged
detail figure below) at least in the plane of the sidewall at the exposed
portion.
For clarity, the aperture of Figure 4 of Shin has been enlarged as
shown below.
Enlarged Detail View of the Aperture of Figure 4 of Shin
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