Appeal No. 1998-2064 Application 08/710,551 combination comes from the teachings of the references and not from the use of impermissible hindsight. While we appreciate the points the examiner is attempting to make with respect to what one of ordinary skill in the art would have learned from the teachings of Becker and Markus, we do not believe the ordinarily skilled artisan would have been led to modify the Becker device to arrive at the subject matter of claim 5 in the absence of appellant’s disclosure. Conceding for the sake of argument that Markus teaches generally that a female threaded member may be resiliently mounted in order to absorb shocks, it is not clear to us why one of ordinary skill in the art would have applied this general teaching in Becker in the particular way and at the particular location called for in claim 5. This is especially so in that Becker discloses not one but two fixably mounted female threaded members , in that Becker’s 2 2Note the presence of lead nut 92 in addition to internally threaded roller nut 74. 8Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007