Appeal 2007-0955
Application 10/297,899
and the plug output; (2) the first connecting part including a separate
terminal connector strip for each of the at least two input connections; and
(3) connecting each of the at least two output connections to an associated
input connection via a connecting point on a respective terminal connector
strip, and each of the at least two output connections on the second
connecting part is conducted only to the respective terminal connector strip
of the associated input connection (Br. 7).
In this regard, Appellants contend that although points of conduction
amongst perpendicular bus bars may be selected for a desired application in
Oka, the reference nevertheless does not teach nor suggest that the
interconnected bus bars are isolated into input and output connections
respectively. Appellants note that selectively joining the perpendicular bus
bars in Oka is merely to create a connection structure and does not teach or
suggest isolating or decoupling the input connections from the output
connections as claimed (Br. 8).
The Examiner responds that the device shown in Figs. 3B and 5A
would include an input and an output. The Examiner adds that Oka’s device
is essentially the same as the claimed invention that involves stacked
conductive strips that are conductively joined at crossover points with
connection regions at their ends (Answer 4-5).
For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
ISSUE
Have Appellants established that the Examiner erred in finding that
the junction connector structure of Oka anticipates the claims?
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