Appeal 2007-2577
Application 90/006,344
plug 22 is part of the head portion from which the terminals 242 must
extend.
second member tail portion
As with the first member tail portion, Prazoff argues that Lin fails to
teach a tail portion affixed to the second rope light.25 The argument fails
again for analogous reasons. The examiner associates the tail portion with
the threaded portion 231 (which has notches 233) of Lin's connecting
cylinder 23. The nut 22, which is part of the overall connecting socket 20b,
is used to compress the threaded portion 231 such that it is connected to
clamp onto the other rope light 10b. One skilled in the art would understand
from Lin that the connecting socket 20b was composed of subunits,
including the threaded portion 231 and nut 22, which cooperate to fix the
socket to the rope light.
Claim 1 was anticipated
When claim 1 is properly construed as broadly as is reasonable in
view of Prazoff's specification, the scope of the claim is too broad to be
consistent with Prazoff's arguments. Properly construed, claim 1 reads on
the disclosure of the Lin patent. We find claim 1 to have been anticipated.
Claim 2
Claim 2 depends from claim 1 and adds the following limitations
(emphasis added)—
wherein said first member tail portion of said first connecting
member and said second member tail portion of said second
25 Br. 21.
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