Appeal No. 1999-0899
Application No. 08/654,752
conventionally used and intended to be used; and, it
would have been obvious to a person of ordinary
skill in the art at the time the invention was made
to have provided a bracket having at least one
perforation for use with the panel in the method of
Strapazzini for the purpose of attaching the
[instrument] panel to an automotive interior.
Appellants do not dispute this finding by the examiner.
With regard to the use of a protrusion and corresponding
concavity on the molds for forming the perforation in the
bracket, as recited, the examiner turns to Idetsuki,
concluding at pages 4 to 5 of the answer that:
It would have been obvious to a person of ordinary
skill in the art at the time the invention was made
to have provided in the method of Strapazzini that
mold (35) have protrusions which project into the
subcavities (41) and (42) (bracket formation
portion) upon closure of the male and female molds
and thus form protrusions in the injected molding
material because [Idetsuki] teaches that such mold
designs are known for providing protrusions; and, it
would have been obvious to have provided such design
features in the molding apparatus of Strapazzini for
the benefit of providing protrusions.
Idetsuki discloses a method for molding items such as
interior trim parts of vehicles (page 3, lines 11 and 12) in 3
which a layer of decorating material 11 over which material 21
3All references herein to Idetsuki by page and line are
to the pages and lines of the translation.
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