Ex parte COLLINS - Page 8




          Appeal No. 1997-3087                                                        
          Application 08/541,519                                                      


          Corp. v. Feil, 774 F.2d 1132, 1143, 227 USPQ 543, 551 (Fed.                 
          Cir. 1985).  For the reasons stated above, we are unable to                 
          agree with the examiner that one of ordinary skill in the art               
          would have been motivated by the teachings of Guth to                       
          incorporate a protruding tab into the retaining means 34 of                 
          Bisbing for actuating a microswitch.  It follows that we                    
          cannot sustain the examiner’s rejection.                                    














               The decision of the examiner is reversed.                              
          REVERSED                                                                    







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