Appeal No. 96-1608
Application 08/220,462
socket portion to include a single opening on a distal end
thereof and a single semicircular recess formed in the single
opening for receiving a section of a link shaft to facilitate
a natural multidirectional movement of the members of the
claimed structure with a primary movement in a single
direction. The examiner's reliance on Cotey to overcome this
deficiency is not well taken.
Cotey discloses a doll 10 having an articulated skeletal
framework 12 whose components are joined to one another by
complementary balls and sockets formed on adjacent component
ends.
In the examiner's view, it would have been obvious to one
of ordinary skill in the art to provide the Deichmann
construction with sockets of the sort taught by Cotey to
receive the ball-shaped ends 15, 15' of Deichmann's connecting
links 14 "as obvious alternative structures and/or to provide
a better fitting socket for the ball elements, and a less
bulky skeleton for the doll" (answer, page 4). As for the
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