Appeal No. 2001-1771 2
Application No. 09/205,782
By way of background, the subject matter at issue in this appeal is similar to the
subject matter at issue in Appeal No. 95-2763 in application S.N. 07/909,925, now
abandoned.1 In the prior appeal, a merits panel of this Board affirmed the examiner’s
decision finally rejecting the claims at issue therein.
Appellants’ invention pertains to a flexible wiring for use in electronic apparatus
(claim 28), a cabling member in an electronic apparatus (claim 32), and an improvement in
packaging of electronic apparatus (claim 33). A copy of the appealed claims can be found
in an appendix to appellants’ second reply brief (Paper No. 24).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon the following items:
Adkins 4,408,255 Oct. 4, 1983
Applicants’ Admitted Prior Art (hereinafter, AAPA) as set forth on page 9, lines 16-22, of
appellants’ specification.
Claims 22, 23, 26 and 28-35 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Adkins in view of AAPA.
Reference is made to appellants’ main brief, first reply brief, and second reply brief
(Paper Nos. 18, 20 and 24) and to the second examiner’s answer (Paper No. 23) for the
respective positions of appellants and the examiner regarding the merits of this rejection.
1The present application is said to be a continuation-in-part of the ‘925
application.
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