Appeal No. 1998-2064
Application 08/710,551
combination comes from the teachings of the references and not
from the use of impermissible hindsight.
While we appreciate the points the examiner is attempting
to make with respect to what one of ordinary skill in the art
would have learned from the teachings of Becker and Markus, we
do not believe the ordinarily skilled artisan would have been
led to modify the Becker device to arrive at the subject
matter of claim 5 in the absence of appellant’s disclosure.
Conceding for the sake of argument that Markus teaches
generally that a female threaded member may be resiliently
mounted in order to absorb shocks, it is not clear to us why
one of ordinary skill in the art would have applied this
general teaching in Becker in the particular way and at the
particular location called for in claim 5. This is especially
so in that Becker discloses not one but two fixably mounted
female threaded members , in that Becker’s 2
2Note the presence of lead nut 92 in addition to
internally threaded roller nut 74.
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