Appeal No. 96-0873
Application 08/132,380
be sufficient to provide a balance force to hold a window at a desired placement.” This
position is without merit. In the absence of any supporting evidence or logical reasoning to
support the examiner’s position, it is not clear why the combination of only the spring force
and the frictional force between the telescoping tubes of De Vries would necessarily be
sufficient to provide a balance force to hold the window in place.
The decision of the examiner is reversed.
Reversed
NEAL E. ABRAMS )
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