Appeal No. 1998-1328
Application No. 08/341,500
1674 (Fed. Cir. 1994).
Independent claims 1, 9, 11, and 15 each recite a
microphone boom comprising: a conductive core which includes
a plurality of strands; a first insulator disposed about the
conductive core; an outer conductor disposed about the first
insulator; and an outer jacket disposed about the outer
conductor.
The Appellant and the Examiner both agree that Sacherman
fails to disclose a conductive core with a plurality of
strands, a first insulator, and an outer conductor as recited
in claims 1, 9, 11, and 15. The Examiner relies on Litauer
for a teaching of these limitations.
Appellant argues that a person of ordinary skill in the
art would not have been motivated to combine teachings of
Sacherman and Litauer. Appellant particularly argues that
cables used in the Litauer invention are heavy duty electrical
cables requiring reinforcement so that the cables do not
collapse under their own weight when strung between utility
poles. Appellant also argues that there is no useful benefit
for use for longitudinally strengthening as taught by Litauer
in the microphone boom disclosed by Sacherman because lack of
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