Appeal No. 1996-3350
Application 08/187,114
article to recover into conforming engagement with the
electrical apparatus (column 3, lines 54-60). Similarly,
Nelson teaches that excellent elastic memory is desired for
the PST, as measured by the permanent set, as well as several
other physical performance criteria (column 4, lines 32-60).
Accordingly, the elastic properties of the tubular elastic
sleeve would have been recognized as result-effective
variables by one of ordinary skill in the art, depending on
the size of the cables being spliced, the sealing pressure and
the recovery time desired. Optimization of such properties
would have been well within the ordinary skill in the art.
See In re Boesch, 617 F.2d 272, 276, 205 USPQ 215, 219 (CCPA
1980). See Nelson, column 4, lines 3-7, where Nelson teaches
the specific monomer systems to prepare the elastomers that
will provide the necessary physical characteristics for his
PST. For the foregoing reasons, we determine that the
properties of the
elastic sleeve recited in claim 13 on appeal would have been
result-effective variables readily optimized by one of
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