Appeal No. 2000-0267 Page 15
Application No. 08/856,943
displaced against contact springs to disengage it.
Specifically, “[t]o detach the adapter when the hair cutting
machine is once more to be operated without the cable, it is
first necessary to displace the hair cutting machine and then
to rotate it, as indicated in Fig. 17 with the arrows 127.”
P. 14 (emphasis added). When the hair cutting machine 103 is
displaced in the direction shown by the arrow 127, the machine
necessarily presses against contact springs 116 and 117,
thereby displacing the springs in the same direction.
Because Mattering’s hair cutting machine with a built-in
battery must be displaced against its contact springs to
disengage it, we are persuaded that the teachings from the
applied prior art would have suggested the limitations that
"the housing must be displaced against the spring bias to
disengage the housing from the element disposed on the cradle
member . . . .”
Claims that are not argued separately stand or fall
together. In re Kaslow, 707 F.2d 1366, 1376, 217 USPQ 1089,
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