Appeal No. 1999-1121
Application No. 08/752,865
from impermissible hindsight in view of Applicants’
disclosure.” The 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of claim 4
is reversed.
The 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of claim 5 is
likewise reversed because the applied references neither
teach nor would have suggested ends protruding from each
of the two loops in Krueger’s wire 1 that are suitable
for insertion into a substrate.
DECISION
The decision of the examiner rejecting claims 3 and
6 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is affirmed, and the decision
of the examiner rejecting claims 2, 4 and 5 under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103(a) is affirmed as to claim 2, and is reversed as to
claims 4 and 5. Accordingly, the decision of the
examiner is affirmed-in-part.
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