Appeal No. 98-1048
Application 08/516,245
Japanese Patent Document2
Claims 1 through 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Rovex in view of Takara.
Reference is made to the appellant's brief (Paper No. 9)
and to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 10) for the respective
positions of the appellant and the examiner with regard to the
merits of this rejection.
Rovex discloses a doll having a body (Figure 1) and a
head (Figure 2) connected via a ball and socket joint. The
head 1, which is formed of resilient P.V.C., includes a socket
3 and the body includes a neck having a ball element 4 at its
upper end. As described in the reference,
[t]he socket 3 in the head . . . has a first,
downwardly facing opening 3a and a second upwardly
facing opening 3b of smaller diameter than the
first. . . .
The ball element 4 is formed at the upper end of
the neck and has a projection from its top in the
2An English language translation of this reference,
prepared on behalf of the Patent and Trademark Office, is
appended hereto.
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