Appeal No. 2001-0609
Application No. 08/903,484
examiner's above-noted rejection will not be sustained. Our
reasons follow.
After having reviewed appellants' prior art Figure 1A and
the associated disclosure at pages 1 and 4 of the
specification and the patent to Dougherty, we are of the
opinion that there is no teaching, suggestion or incentive in
Dougherty '358, or otherwise specified by the examiner, which
would have led one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of
appellants' invention to modify the transmission in Figure 1A
or, more specifically, the output bearing assembly and speed
sensor arrangement thereof in the manner urged by the
examiner. The examiner's assertion (final rejection, page 3)
that it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in
the art at the time of appellants' invention to provide the
Figure 1A prior art transmission with a speed sensor mounted
axially between a pair of tapered bearings in view of the
teachings of Dougherty '358 so as to prevent contamination,
assumes a problem with the transmission of Figure 1A that the
evidence of record does not suggest exists. Nothing in this
record provides any indication that contamination of the
4
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007