Appeal No. 97-3030
Application No. 08/254,181
However, it appears to us that as far as this goes, Hawkins is
merely cumulative to what is already suggested by Pons Pons.
Maury is used by the examiner to show that it was known
to use forked end portions (26-28 of Figures 1 and 3 of Maury)
to engage an electrical connector to an edge of a substrate.
We will not go so far as appellants in contending that Maury
constitutes nonanalogous art, since Maury, Pons Pons and the
instant claimed subject matter all are concerned with
connections to electrical prongs, but we find no suggestion
within the applied references or within the ordinary skill of
the artisan which would have led the artisan to employ a
forked portion formed on the ends of the electrical contact
prongs wherein the forked ends are adapted to engage the
porcelain enamel metal substrate as an edge connector. The
examiner says it would have been obvious to use forked end
portions to engage an electrical connector to a substrate "for
more secure installation of the electrical connectors"
(principal answer-page 8). However, we see no reason, and
find no suggestion by the art of record, to rearrange the
structure of Pons Pons in order to provide for a forked
portion formed on the ends of said electrical contact prongs,
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