Appeal No. 2000-0534 Page 10
Application No. 08/929,543
suggested by Figure 1 of Ball that an angle of "substantially
145 degrees or less" (claim 22) and an angle of "substantially
135 degrees or less" (claim 23) would have been obvious at the
time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill
in the art.
CONCLUSION
To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject
claims 1 to 5, 7, 8 and 20 to 23 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is
reversed and new grounds of rejection of claims 1 and 20 to 23
have been added pursuant to provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b).
This decision contains new grounds of rejection pursuant
to 37 CFR § 1.196(b). 37 CFR § 1.196(b) provides that, "[a]
new ground of rejection shall not be considered final for
purposes of judicial review."
37 CFR § 1.196(b) also provides that the appellant,
WITHIN TWO MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THE DECISION, must exercise
one of the following two options with respect to the new
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