Appeal No. 2001-1514 Page 7
Application No. 08/874,805
connected to a compression sleeve to a second end fixedly joined to the manifold of the
controller connection device.
For the reasons set forth above, the examiner has not presented a prima facie
case of obviousness with respect to claim 1. Accordingly, the decision of the examiner
to reject claims 1 to 6, 8, 10, 11 and 13 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.2
2 We have also reviewed the references to Wright and Sikora additionally applied in the rejections
of claims 8 and 11 but find nothing therein which makes up for the deficiencies of Arkans and Mogaki
discussed above.
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