Ex parte HEROLD - Page 9




          Appeal No. 97-2644                                                          
          Application 08/381,531                                                      



          35 U.S.C. § 102(b) will not be sustained.                                   


                    For the same reasons as indicated above, it is                    
          apparent that the examiner's rejection of dependent claims 6,               
          7 and 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 based solely on Schick will                  
          also not be sustained.                                                      


                    As for the examiner's rejection of claims 8 through               
          11 and 18 through 21 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatent-               
          able over Schick in view of Stolz, we see nothing in the                    
          patent to                                                                   


          Stolz which in any way provides for the deficiencies of Schick              
          as noted above.  Thus, even if one of ordinary skill in the                 
          art were to consider combining the teachings of the applied                 
          patents in the manner urged by the examiner, a proposition                  
          which we consider to be highly questionable, the result would               
          not be a connecting pin as now claimed by appellant in the                  
          claims before us on appeal.  Accordingly, the examiner's                    



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