Appeal No. 1999-1624
Application 08/834,080
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the examiner, reference is
made to the briefs and the answer for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
Since we conclude the examiner has not set forth a prima facie case of
obviousness within 35 U.S.C. §103, we reverse.
The preamble of independent claims 24 and 32 as well as the first clause of
independent claims 38 and 45 recite in some manner that a portion of the outer jacket of a
cable is removed to expose an exposed portion of the metallic shield thereof. The end of
independent claims 24 and 32 recite that the claimed ground plate, and the end of
independent claim 38 on appeal recites that the conductive member’s termination portion,
have a hump or humps for a single or pair of slots for receiving cables along their length in
registry with the exposed metallic shields to maintain the metallic shields on the ground
plate portion or the termination portion. Corresponding language is recited near the end of
independent claim 45 which states that the exposed portion of the metallic shield is within
a slot of a hump projecting from one side of a ground termination portion. This language at
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