Appeal No. 1997-3074 Page 9
Application No. 08/392,598
[brief-page 16] is that the printed circuit board connectors
constitute structure which is not suggested or taught by the
cited references. The artisan would have recognized that,
typically, connections are made to circuit boards. However,
appellants have not responded to the examiner’s rationale for
concluding the claimed subject matter to have been obvious nor
have appellants addressed the obviousness issue. Merely
because the cited references may not disclose a particular
element, e.g., connectors on a printed circuit board, this does
not answer the question as to why it would not have been
obvious to provide for such elements.
Appellants’ “arguments” constitute statements that the
references do not disclose what is claimed but they do not
address the question of obviousness of the claimed subject
matter which is the examiner’s basis for the rejection of the
claims. Accordingly, we find appellants’ “arguments” to be
unpersuasive of non-obviousness.
The examiner’s decision rejecting claims 1 through 7, 9
and 11 under 35 U.S.C. 103 is affirmed.
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