Appeal No. 1998-0491
Application 08/125,002
viewed the overall substantially L-shaped cross-sectional ring
configuration of Reik as responding to or suggestive of a
tubular section of sheet metal having an axial end surface
provided with a plurality of tapped recesses extending in the
sheet metal in an axial direction of the tubular section
(claim 43) or provided with at least one recess in said end
surface of the sheet metal tubular section (claim 45).
As can readily be discerned from our analysis, supra, the
evidence of obviousness proffered by the examiner simply would
not have been suggestive of the particular subject matter of
appellants’ claims. Lacking evidence, we are, therefore,
constrained to reverse the rejection under 35 U.S.C. 103.
In summary, this panel of the board has reversed the
rejection of claims 27 through 37, 39, and 42 through 47 under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Reik.
The decision of the examiner is reversed.
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