Appeal No. 96-2987
Application 08/346,060
The full text of the examiner's rejections and response to
the argument presented by appellant appears in the answer (Paper
No. 10), while the complete statement of appellant’s argument can
be found in the brief (Paper No. 9).
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issues raised
in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully considered
appellant’s specification and claims, the applied teachings, and 3
the respective viewpoints of appellant and the examiner. As a
consequence of our review, we make the determination which
follows.
We reverse each of the examiner’s rejections of appellant’s
claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Independent claims 1 and 10 each set forth an apparatus for
attaching a screw-on electrical connector to a plurality of
3In our evaluation of the applied teachings, we have
considered all of the disclosure of each teaching for what it
would have fairly taught one of ordinary skill in the art. See
In re Boe, 355 F.2d 961, 965, 148 USPQ 507, 510 (CCPA 1966).
Additionally, this panel of the board has taken into account not
only the specific teachings, but also the inferences which one
skilled in the art would reasonably have been expected to draw
from the disclosure. See In re Preda 401 F.2d 825, 826, 159 USPQ
342, 344 (CCPA 1968).
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