Appeal No. 1997-0800
Application No. 08/382,926
We agree with Appellant. The Examiner admits that
Robinson does not teach the claimed sensor at a finger joint.
Although Darroch may be interpreted as sensing movement of a
finger joint, by monitoring different finger positions, its
optical finger position sensor is totally different than
Robinson’s fingertip contacts. To use Darroch with Robinson,
one would have to through out just about everything on
Robinson’s glove and mount Darroch’s device on a glove finger.
We see no motivation to do so, without the hindsight of
Appellant’s disclosure. Even if one were to combine Robinson
and Darroch, we find that the following limitation of claim 26
would not be met,
sensing apparatus mounted on said glove-
like apparel near said finger joint and having first
and second states indicative of rotation of said
finger in a corresponding one of said first and
second directions; (emphasis added)
because Darroch does not have two states indicative of two
directions. Also, the combination of references would not
meet the following limitation of claim 21,
a microswitch apparatus mounted on said
glove-like apparel near said finger joint and having
first and second ON states occuring while said
finger remains rotated from said initial rotational
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