Appeal No. 96-3201
Application 08/177,399
that would establish a prima facie case of obviousness with
respect to the claims rejected thereunder. With respect to
Crider, which discloses a task light, there is no disclosure
of providing a plurality of fixture heads and a plurality of
positionable mounting structures which are fully
interchangeable with each other. Crider suffers from the
same shortcomings as Martin,
and for this reason does not establish a prima facie case of
obviousness with respect to the claims rejected thereunder.
Turning to the Kao disclosure, we note that Kao discloses
a first embodiment in Figure 1 which shows a floor lamp base
which can receive fixture mountable head 5 or 5'. Figure 5 of
Kao discloses a table lamp base which can receive the very
same alternative mounting heads 5 or 5'. Therefore, Kao
clearly
discloses a plurality of mountable fixture heads with fixture
head 5 shown in both Figure 1 and Figure 5 pointed upwardly
for indirect lighting. Kao further discloses a plurality of
different positionable mounting structures, one for the floor
and one for a table in Figures 1 and 5 respectively. Finally,
these fixture heads can be detachably mounted and are
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