Appeal No. 2000-0325
Application No. 08/914,365
upon which the rejection is based, we vacate the standing rejections applied against the
claims. We enter a new ground of rejection, infra.
New ground of rejection
We enter the following new ground of rejection in accordance with 37 CFR
§ 1.196(b): Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Levinsky.
We take claim 1 as representative of the invention, and find the claim to be anticipated by
the disclosure of Levinsky as set forth below. We do not mean to imply that the dependent
claims necessarily represent allowable subject matter, but leave consideration of the
subject matter of those claims for the examiner and appellants in view of our reading of
claim 1 on the reference.
Claim 1 Levinsky
An electrical connector for Describes an electrical connector
crimpable connection about an (Fig. 1) for crimpable connection about
electrical conductor upon application an electrical conductor upon application
of a crimping force imparted by of a crimping force by a crimping tool;
opposing arcuate dies of a crimping tool,col. 1, ll. 11-21 and col. 1, l. 68 -
said connector comprising: col. 2, l. 3
an elongate connector body formed of a compressible material (e.g.
formed of a compressible material, Title of patent) and elongate at least in
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