Appeal No. 1996-3058
Application 08/192,520
together. Therefore, claim 1 will be considered the
representative claim.
Appellants argue:
Figure 4 of Welch et al.
illustrates a contact plate 122
having first conductive material
60 and second conductive material
65. These conductive materials
are electrically isolated from
one another (Welch et al. at col.
8, lines 20-22). Conversely,
Claim 1 of the present
application recites that all
conductive material is in
electrical contact. (Brief-page
4.)
Looking at claim 1 we see “wherein all said
conductive material which forms said patterns is electrically
connected.”
The Examiner responds:
The conductive surfaces 60
and 65 [of figure 4] are separate
due to the respective clockwise
or counterclockwise rotation of
plate 122.
However, in each instance of
rotation, for instance clockwise,
it is clear that the conductive
material 60 which forms the
pattern is electrical[ly]
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