Appeal No. 2000-0374
Application No. 08/686,526
recited in Appellant’s claim 1. In short, simply
referring to a broad teaching of tilting an optical
pickup via the tilting of a guide shaft in no way
provides any guidance whatsoever with respect to
Appellant’s spring biased adjusting member.
Even though we agree with the examiner’s views expressed
at page 5 of the answer that Kato would have reasonably
indicated or otherwise suggested to the artisan that the
screws shown at the end portions of the guide shafts 23A, 23B
in Figure 1 of Kato are inserted into corresponding end holes
in the axial ends of these respective shafts, we cannot agree
with the examiner’s conclusion that the artisan would have
found it obvious to have adjusted the tilt of the entire
length or at least one end of these respective shafts based
upon the spring biased screw arrangement depicted
in Figure 10 of Kato as modified by the movable fulcrum
5 arrangement in Yamashita which tilts the racking plate 22 to
in turn tilt the sliding shaft 21 to which is mounted the
pickup
1 in the Figure 1 and 2 embodiments.
We agree with the examiner’s observation at page 6 of the
answer that the corresponding adjustable structure as urged by
the examiner “could” have been arrived at by the artisan. Yet
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