Appeal No. 98-2124 Page 2
Application No. 08/454,898
as being allowable subject to the requirement that they be
rewritten to include all the subject matter of the claims from
which they depend. Claims 6-9, the only other claims present
in the application, stand allowed.
We AFFIRM-IN-PART.
The appellants' invention pertains to an electrical
connector that is adapted to be mounted on a back plane or
circuit board (i.e., mother board) and a back plane or circuit
board (i.e., mother board) assembly that includes an electrical
connector. Independent claims 1 and 15 are further
illustrative of the appealed subject matter and copies thereof
may be found in the APPENDIX to the brief.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Piorunneck 5,024,609 Jun. 18,
1991
Biechler et al. (Biechler) 5,052,936 Oct. 1,
1991
Baechtle 5,137,454 Aug. 11,
1992
Yohn et al. (Yohn) 5,482,474 Jan. 9,
1996
(filed May 17, 1994)
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