Appeal No. 2000-0563
Application No. 08/813,965
door is open.
The Ulatowski door assembly meets all of the limitations
in claim 14 except for the one requiring the finger guard to
incorporate “adjustment means for enabling the cross-sectional
shape of the guard to be varied by choice of alternative
settings of the adjustment means.” Ulatowski, whose finger
guard members
20 have a set cross-sectional shape, does not disclose such
adjustment means. The examiner’s reliance on Haglund to
overcome this deficiency is unsound.
Haglund discloses a coupling post for joining articulated
fence segments at a desired angle. The post consists of a
stationary part 18 and a rotating part 20 which can be
adjusted relative to one another to present fence attachment
surfaces at various desired angles (see Figures 2 through 4).
In proposing to combine Ulatowski and Haglund to reject
the appealed claims, the examiner has concluded that “[i]t
would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the
art, at the time of appellant’s invention, to provide
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