Appeal No. 1997-3089 Page 6
Application No. 08/577,839
as appellants assert, even if a magnetic field passed through
ring 21, there is no evidence that rotation of the ring would
induce a current in the ring. Clearly, King does not provide
such evidence and the examiner has provided no evidence of
such, especially important in the face of appellants’
reasonable argument that such current is not induced in the
ring.
More importantly, even if the King and Allegre teachings
were to be combined with Persson, we are at a loss as to how,
exactly, such a combination would be made. There is no
indication of how the squirrel cage structures of King and
Allegre would be incorporated into Persson. If, as the
examiner appears to indicate, only the end rings of these
structures would be incorporated, the question again is raised
as to why the artisan would have dissected the squirrel cage
structures of King and Allegre and used only the end rings
therefrom. Further, why would the artisan have been led to
modify Persson so as to include the rings and how would such
rings be installed in Persson? The examiner’s rejection
appears to rely on picking one type of motor from one
reference, a conductive ring from another reference and a
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