Appeal No. 2000-2267
Application No. 08/764,576
discussed deficiencies in Eckert, Horn, and Seewaldt. Similarly,
we find that the Gardner and Cowan references, applied to address
the housing end structure and cable connection features of
several of the dependent claims, do not overcome the innate
deficiencies of Eckert, Horn, Seewaldt, Lunzer and Gschwender.
For all of the above reasons, because the Examiner has not
established a prima facie case of obviousness since all of the
limitations of the appealed claims are not taught or suggested by
the applied prior art, the Examiner’s 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
rejection of independent claims 1 and 8, as well as claims 2-5,
7, 9, and 10 dependent thereon, is not sustained.
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