Appeal No. 96-2385
Application 08/110,807
however, is that the sheet metal 701 is described as a “ground
plate bracket” comprising additional portions 703 and 705.
These are not taught to be formed of a printed circuit board
in this reference. There is no real suggestibility of that
construction, contrary to the examiner's point of view,
regarding the portion of a ground plane comprising the copper
conductive strip 1001 glued to the batteries 301 in Figure 3
directly connecting to the metallized plastic 1003, connecting
in turn to this sheet metal plate 703 of the circuit described
in Figure 7.
Among all these collective teachings and showings of the
references relied upon, there is no clear suggestibility or
teaching for that matter to the artisan to form a ground plane
or plate of a printed circuit board as recited in each
independent claim 1, 10 and 14 on appeal. The artisan
therefore would not have taken the collective teachings and
showings of the three references relied upon and prospectively
arrived at the presently claimed subject matter in these
independent claims. Since we cannot sustain the rejection of
each independent claim 1, 10 and 14 on appeal, the rejection
of their respective dependent claims falls as well.
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