Appeal No. 2000-1634 Page 8
Application No. 09/093,279
colored in reddish-brown is U-shaped, the member itself, as
shown more completely in Figures 1 and 2 is not "a generally
U-shaped member" as recited in claim 1. Instead, the joint
portion of Pfaar would be considered, in our view, by a person
of ordinary skill in the art to be a housing with an enclosing
sidewall, a top wall and a bottom wall with three openings
therein for the steering arm 3 and the two bushings 9.
Since all the limitations of claim 1 are not found in
Pfaar for the reasons set forth above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claim 1, and claims 2 and 4 to 6 dependent
thereon, under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is reversed.
The obviousness rejection
We will not sustain the rejection of claim 3 under 35
U.S.C. § 103.
We have reviewed the reference to Conner additionally
applied in the rejection of dependent claim 3 but find nothing
therein which makes up for the deficiency of Pfaar discussed
above with respect to claim 1. Accordingly, the decision of
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