Appeal No. 2001-1898
Application No. 08/835,945
through the secured access in the object," but since these
recitations concern, respectively, the structure of the object to
be secured and the method by which the fastener is placed in
position, rather than any structure, function or capability of
the device being claimed, i.e., of the bar per se, they have no
bearing on whether the claimed bar is readable on the apparatus
disclosed by Cure.
We therefore will sustain rejection (3) as to claims 47
and 52, as well as to claims 49, 54 and 55, which appellants have
not argued separately.
Rejection (4)
Claim 57 reads:
57. A device comprising a bar having a threaded transverse
bore substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the
bar, wherein at least a first end of the bar is cylindrically
curved such that a radius of a curve of the first end is measured
from a first axis substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal
axis of the bar and wherein a second end of the bar is
cylindrically curved such that a radius of a curve of the second
end is measured from a second axis substantially perpendicular to
the longitudinal axis of the bar.
Stenberg discloses in Figs. 1 and 2 a means of attaching a
tool, such as a file 1, to a handle 2, in which a bar 6 having a
threaded transverse bore is positioned in a hole through the
handle, and the threaded tang 3 of the file is screwed into the
bore (pages 2 and 3). The examiner acknowledges that Stenberg
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