Appeal No. 96-3305
Application 07/607,147
to operate said second electrical circuit in accordance with control signals provided through said fourth
terminal means.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Kawabata 4,472,040 Sept. 18, 1984
Harada et al. (Harada) 4,790,649 Dec. 13, 1988
(filed Jan. 2, 1985)
Yamada et al. (Yamada) 4,862,208 Aug. 29, 1989
(effective filing date Feb. 12, 1986)
Claims 22 through 36 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Kawabata in view of Yamada and Harada.
Reference is made to the briefs and the answers for the respective positions of the appellants
and the examiner.
OPINION
The obviousness rejection of claims 22 through 36 is reversed.
All of the claims on appeal specifically require inter alia separate ground lines running from the
power source in the camera to the motor and the electrical circuit in the lens.
Kawabata discloses (Figures 4 and 5) a lens electrical circuit comprised of resistor 40 and a
lens motor 39 that are both grounded (presumably in common to the chassis of the camera). Kawabata
does not disclose the separate ground lines required by the claims on appeal.
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