Appeal No. 1999-1494
Application 08/596,062
further consideration.
The subject matter on appeal relates to “a two-piece
cable tie of the type having a metal locking wedge inserted
into a strap accepting channel formed through a strap locking
head which acts as a strap locking mechanism” (specification,
page 1). Claim 1 is illustrative and reads as follows:
1. A cable tie including a strap having a first end and
a free end, a locking head secured to the first end of the
strap, a plurality of walls on the locking head forming a
strap accepting channel, and a metal locking wedge having a
strap engaging portion positioned within the strap accepting
channel and an embedded portion mounted within an inner wall
of the locking head and a flexure region disposed
therebetween, comprising:
a groove formed on the embedded portion of the metal
locking wedge.
The references relied upon by the examiner in support of
the appealed rejections are:
Reynolds 3,408,699 Nov. 5, 1968
Bernard et al. (Bernard) 5,517,727 May 21,
1996
Woods, European Patent Document 0 662 429 Jul. 12, 1995
Claims 1 through 9 stand rejected under the judicially
created doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting as being
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