Appeal No. 95-3453
Application No. 08/125,709
number of wires are not shown in the Kochendorfer reference.
Nor has the examiner explained why the use of a plurality of
conductors (wires) in the device of the type described in the
Kochendorfer reference would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art.
Finally, although appellants have not specifically
challenged the examiner's official notice involving the outer
wall locations of electrical plug-in connectors in general in 2
their Brief, the examiner has not supplied any evidence, much
less explanation, why one of ordinary skill in the art would
have been led to place the claimed electrical plug-in
connectors at such location in the context of the heating
device of the type described in the Kochendorfer reference.
The Kochendorfer reference clearly does not call for insertion
of any electrical plug-in connectors at its inner wall
openings, much less at any outer wall openings. See Figure 1.
In view of the foregoing, we do not believe that the
examiner, on this record, has carried his burden of
2During the hearing dated March 8, 1999, appellants
claimed that the placement of the electrical plug-in
connectors on the outer wall of a refrigerator structure is
not well known.
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