Appeal 2007-2577
Application 90/006,344
ANTICIPATION
To anticipate, each and every claim limitation must be found, either
expressly or inherently, in a single prior art reference. Moreover, the
reference must enable one skilled in the art to make and use the invention.
Patents, such as the Lin patent, are presumed to have been enabling.11
Claim 1
Claim 1 defines the invention as follows—
1. A ropelight connector for connecting a first
ropelight with a second ropelight, comprising:
a first connecting member having a first member head
portion and a first member tail portion affixed to an end of said
first ropelight, wherein a pair of parallel locking sockets is
longitudinally formed on said first member head portion and a
pair of tubular conductors, which are electrically extended from
a pair of wires inside said first ropelight respectively, outwardly
protruded from said first member head portion along said
locking sockets respectively;
a second connecting member, having a second member
head portion and a second member tail portion affixed to an end
of said second ropelight, comprising a tubular shelter frame
coaxially extended from said second member head portion
wherein a pair of conductive terminals, which are electrically
connected to a pair of wires inside said second ropelight, are
outwardly extended from said second member head portion and
adapted for fittingly inserting into said locking sockets to
engage with said tubular conductors respectively for securely
connecting said second connecting member with said first
connecting member, so as to electrically connecting said first
and second ropelights together; and
a locking means comprising a sleeve locker slidably
wearing on said first connecting member and a ring-shaped
11 E.g., Amgen, Inc. v. Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., 314 F.3d 1313, 1354,
65 USPQ2d 1385, 1416 (Fed. Cir. 2003).
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