Appeal No. 1999-0432
Application No. 08/331,799
Claim 12 has been withdrawn from consideration as being drawn to a non-elected
species. Claims 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, and 19 have been canceled.
We refer to the Final Rejection (mailed May 12, 1997) and the Examiner's Answer
(mailed Mar. 17, 1998) for a statement of the examiner's position and to the Brief (filed
Dec. 10, 1997) and the Reply Brief (filed May 18, 1998) for appellants' position with
respect to the claims which stand rejected.
OPINION
In the section 102 rejection of claims 1, 2 and 9 as being anticipated by Sharp, the
examiner points to the reference as disclosing an "adapter lower portion 22" and an
"adapter upper portion 24." (Answer at 3.) "Further, the adapter lower portion 22 having a
mounting member 84 would be inherently conductively coupled to bus bars." (Id.)
Appellants' position, as set forth on pages 6 and 7 of the Brief, is that Sharp's
mounting member 84 does not conductively connect with the bus bars. The examiner
responds, on pages 4 and 5 of the Answer, that the mounting member 84 would be
inherently conductively coupled to the bus bars, particularly in view of page 13, lines 8
through 12 of the reference.
Sharp discloses (at 7-8) an electrical load center which comprises a cover trim
piece door 26 (Fig. 1), a bus bar support panel 24, and an enclosure or housing 22. The
housing 22 is preferably made of plastic. The back wall 30 of housing 22 (Fig. 5) has
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