Appeal No. 1999-1538
Application 08/661,733
from the holder in contrast to the vertical protrusion requirement of claim 5 on appeal.
Additionally, the claim requires that an edge portion of the plate spring members include a
groove for receiving a corresponding one of the horizontal protrusions from the holder.
Again, in the context of the combined teachings and showings of the references
relied upon by the examiner, the examiner relies upon Ikegame as to these noted
requirements of claim 8 on appeal. As to this claim, the examiner relies upon
Figures 16-18 (to which we would add Figure 19) as evidence showing that a spring
member 330 in this embodiment in these figures would include a grooved portion which
would attach to a holder including projections. Our study of all figures of Ikegame leads us
to conclude that there is no teaching or showing of any claimed horizontal protrusion from a
holder to which an edge portion of a corresponding plate spring member, such as element
330 in Figures 16-19, would include a groove for receiving a correspond one of the
horizontal projections. Figures 16-19 do not appear to show on the lens holder member
320 regions 320e the claimed horizontal protrusions; the same is true of the fixing member
340 in its region 341a. Similarly, either end of spring member 330, that is, end 330a and
330b, do not also correspondingly have grooves which mate with or receive corresponding
protrusions as claimed. There are indented portions or notches within the plate regions
330a and 330b of the spring member 330 but they do not appear to us to be in the form of
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