Appeal No. 2002-0573
Application 09/150,422
appeal, or of an escutcheon fitting which slides over the
combined integral drop nipple-reducing coupling assembly for a
predetermined distance, as set forth in dependent claim 2.
Since we have determined that the teachings and suggestions
found in Ballard, Jackson and MacDonald would not have made the
subject matter as a whole of independent claims 1 and 4 on appeal
obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of
appellant’s invention, we must refuse to sustain the examiner’s
rejection of those claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). It follows
that the examiner’s rejection of dependent claims 2, 3 and 5
under that same ground will likewise not be sustained.
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