Appeal No. 95-4371
Application No. 08/064,440
5. Claims 25 and 26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Feighofen in view of Bogomazov and
Rost.
6. Claim 28 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Feighofen in view of Bogomazov, Rost
and Garden.
Reference is made to the examiner’s answer for details of
these rejections.
Considering first the § 102(b) rejection of claim 1, it
is well establish patent law that for a reference to be
properly anticipatory, each and every element of the rejected
claim must be found either expressly described or under the
principles of inherency in the applied reference. See RCA
Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc., 730 F.2d 1440,
1444, 221 USPQ. 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
In the present case, the Feighofen reference discloses a
connector which is fastened to a V-belt for joining the free
ends b of the belt together to form an endless belt structure.
In the embodiment shown in Fieghofen’s Figure 1, the connector
comprises a pair of clamping plates d, a central filler member
a and a connecting screw or tie rod c. Each of the belt ends b
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