Appeal No. 2000-0530
Application No. 08/811,192
"integrally thermoformed" as claimed.3 It is for this reason
that the rejection must be reversed.
The rejection of claims 45-46
We reverse the rejection of claims 45-46 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103.
As to dependent claims 45 and 46, the examiner relies
upon the earlier described teachings of Vance and SU ’045,
taken with the disclosure of spiral line guide 5 by Carabasse
(Fig. 2). In the examiner’s view, it would have been obvious
to provide the modified fishing rod of Vance with a spiral
line guide based upon the Carabasse teaching.
Notwithstanding the referenced teaching of a spiral line
guide by Carabasse, we conclude that the Carabasse document,
as it is applied by the examiner, does not overcome the
3 Consistent with appellants’ specification (page 47), we
understand the recitation of "integrally thermoformed" in each
of the independent claims to denote that the assembly of
components of the fishing rod was subjected to a thermoforming
procedure that encompassed heating, burning, and
pressurization.
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