Appeal No. 2000-1963
Application No. 09/272,989
complementary Velcro strip 56 on the forward end of the camera
lens, a Velcro strip 46 on one face of the connection strip 42
for engaging a complementary Velcro strip on the underside of
the camera, and complementary Velcro strips 44 and 52 on the
other face of the connection strip 42 and on the underflap 38,
respectively, to secure these elements around the rear of the
camera.
In proposing to combine Villarreal and Bock to reject
claim 1, the examiner concludes that
it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill
in the art at the time the invention was made to use
connector means 52 and co-operating connector means
44 on said elongate strip of flexible material 28 to
overlap and interlock the device as disclosed by
Bock . . . in the anti-glare device of Villarreal .
. . to achieve an anti-glare device as claimed,
because the use of such connector means and co-
operating connector means would provide easier and
better attachment of the elongate strip [answer,
page 5].
Villarreal and Bock, however, provide no factual support
for the examiner’s contention that the proposed modification
of the Villarreal sunshade in view of Bock would result in
easier and better attachment of the sunshade. Indeed, given
the resiliently grasping nature of Villarreal’s mounting
collar 14, this modification would not appear to improve the
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