Appeal No. 2000-0887 Page 10
Application No. 08/848,238
plane formed by grooves in the fixture. Because Shaheen does
not address bending the fiber optic cable outside of the plane
formed by grooves of the fixture, we are not persuaded that
teachings from the applied prior art would appear to have
suggested the claimed limitations. From all of the above, we
find that the examiner has failed to establish a prima facie
case of obviousness. Accordingly, the rejection of claims 1-
17 and 20-30 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) is reversed.
We turn next to the rejection of dependent claim 31 under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as above, further in view of Sakurai. As
Sakurai does overcome the deficiencies of the basic
combination of Shaheen and Yamada, the rejection of claim 31
under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) is reversed.
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