Appeal No. 2001-0217
Application No. 09/186,741
member to be “located off-center and to one side of an
attachment orifice.” As conceded by the examiner (see page 5
in the answer), Ellinwood’s T-shaped element also fails to
respond to the limitations in claims 18 and 27 requiring the
substantially flat horizontal top element to have “opposite
side walls in the shape of arcs from a top view, said arcs
having predetermined radii and arc lengths.”
Bischof discloses a workpiece connecting element
consisting of a flat, arc-shaped, lamellar part 3 adapted to
fit into an arc-like groove 6 in a first workpiece 1 and a
bolt-like part 4 welded to the lamellar part and adapted to
fit into a hole 8 in a second workpiece 2. Bischof also
discloses a drilling template (see Figure 9) having a
plurality of arc-shaped components. The stated purpose of the
drilling template is to facilitate the drilling of a
transverse hole 7 in the first workpiece 1 (see column 4,
lines 25 through 37).
In proposing to combine Ellinwood and Bischof to support
the § 103 rejections, the examiner, making reference to the
drilling template shown in Bischof’s Figure 9, concludes that
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