Appeal No. 2000-1737
Application No. 08/965,180
Technology alloy in the safety brake of the Okada elevator.
As noted above, Marin certainly does not provide this
suggestion, inasmuch as Marin is directed to individual
particles, as appellants point out in the reply brief. Having
found no suggestion for the examiner's proposed combination of
references, we must conclude that the examiner's prima facie
case of obviousness lacks a proper evidentiary basis with
respect to claims 1 and 4.
We have further reviewed the other applied references to
Black and Okada, but we find therein no teaching or suggestion
which would bridge the evidentiary gap we have found with
respect to the rejection of the independent claim.
Accordingly, the rejections of all claims on appeal are
reversed.
REVERSED
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