Appeal No. 97-4082
Application 08/365,849
of elongated resilient members, we must reverse the rejection
of claim 1.
The respective rejections of claims 36 and 5
We reverse the respective rejections of claims 36 and 5
under 35 U.S.C. § 103. It follows that the rejection of
claims 6, 12, 15, 16, 21, 22, 26, and 27 is also reversed
since these claims stand or fall with claim 5.
In the respective rejections of claims 36 and 5, the
examiner additionally relies upon the Balousek patent and the
Rivers patent. We find that these documents do not overcome
the abovementioned deficiency of the Goellner and Wexler
documents. It is notable that, like the Goellner and Wexler
references, the Balousek and Rivers patents teach a single
elongated spring 19
and a single curved leaf spring 41, respectively. Thus, every
reference applied by the examiner fails to disclose or suggest
an
automatic door bottom with a plurality of elongated resilient
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