Appeal No. 2001-0193 Page 7
Application No. 09/182,138
the specification is “[w]hat is needed is an alternate drive mechanism for driving display
sign arrangements and other devices that require frequent starts and stops.”
This application is remanded to the examiner for consideration of the teachings of
Huber in view of those of Pessina with regard to the obviousness of the claimed subject
matter. In this regard, we point out that the Huber invention “addresses the problem of
rotating a sign face member while avoiding the shock of braking, starting and stopping
again while minimizing wear on the mechanism itself” (column 3, lines 31-34), and
discloses a sign rotation mechanism that is described as an improvement over gear
transmission drives and which varies the speed of rotation in the same manner as the
appellants’ invention (see columns 1 and 3).
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