Appeal No. 98-0683
Application 08/505,853
Both of the above-noted rejections are bottomed on the
examiner's view that:
It would have been obvious to provide in Short
Sr. attaching means as taught by Lystad for an
auxiliary visor in order to secure in position
and continuous attaching means as taught by
either Gleason or Goldstein [sic, Gleason or]
or Hou as stated above. Use of the front
surface of the rear view mirror is deemed to be
an obvious expedient to one of ordinary skill
in the art as the position disclosed in Short
Sr. has the auxiliary visor in close proximity
to the mirror as seen in figure 5, hence the
mirror is the most obvious location for
additional securement. [Answer, pages 5 and
6.]
We do not support the examiner's position. Short discloses
an auxiliary sun visor which is used to span the space between two
conventional sun visors in a motor vehicle. Short's auxiliary sun
visor is adapted to be suspended from the arm or stud which
supports the vehicle's rear view mirror 16 and, to this end, Short
provides the auxiliary sun visor with an insertion slot 11 having
apertures 12 spaced there along in order that the stud or arm may
slipped through the slot and frictionally engage a selected
aperture. While Lystad shows hook and loop means for securing a
sun visor, the sun visor (which is pivoted between operative and
non-operative positions) and interior trim of the vehicle are
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