Interference No. 104,693
Preputnick v. Provencher
22. The placement of a conduction ground shield
along one side of a terminal module to define a
shielded terminal module was well known to one of
ordinary skill in the art long before March 1995 and is
explained repeatedly in the patent literature, as shown
in the Soes 1183 patent and the Gilissen '341 patent.
Based on the foregoing, we find that the placement of a
conduction ground shield along one side of a terminal module to
define a shielded terminal module was well known to one of
ordinary skill in the art by March 1995. See, for example, U.S.
Patent No. 5,496,183 (ęSoes") and U.S. Patent No. 5,104,341
('Gilissen"), as is discussed in 1 22 of the Granitz declaration.
We note further that in its Request for Declaration of
Interference (Exhibit 2019, page 3), regarding a connector having
a conduction ground shield along one side of the terminal module,
Preputnick stated that '[s]uch ground shields are well known and
admitted prior art and it would have been obvious to use such a
shield with the terminal module of Count I."
For the foregoing reasons, with regard to Provencher's
claims 18 and 19, we gran Preputnick's preliminary motion 2 but
only on the ground of obviousness over Hashiguchi in combination
with the Kachlic patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,171,161), and dismiss
Preputnick's preliminary motion 2 with respect to Provencher's
.claims 18 and 19 on all other grounds of obviousness.
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