Appeal No. 1999-1486
Application No. 08/670,806
arrangement per se. Claim 17, on the other hand, is also drawn
to a locking arrangement “for a hood of a motor vehicle," but
expressly includes a hood and a stationary vehicle body part.
Each of these claims includes corresponding first lock parts
comprising, inter alia, a catch bow, a spindle fixed to the
catch bow and having an external thread, an adjusting bush
having an internal thread, and a base plate, with the
adjusting bush being rotatably connected about an axis of
rotation to the base plate and being fixed along the axis, and
with the external thread of the spindle being engaged with the
internal thread of the adjusting bush such that rotation of
the adjusting bush moves the spindle along the axis.
The examiner’s rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is founded
upon the combined teachings of the respective Claud-Mantle and
Poe documents.
A threshold issue before us is the appropriateness of the
prior art Poe teaching in the examiner’s obviousness
rejection.
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