Appeal No. 2002-0555
Application 09/361,514
1027 (Fed. Cir. 1997)), such force exerting members must be
interpreted to be members that are specifically designed and
intended to apply a force against the mounting brackets of the
electronic circuit board assemblies associated therewith in the
computer assembly defined in claim 1 and as urging such mounting
brackets and their associated electronic circuit board components
into their proper position in the mounting panel of the computer
assembly.
It is clear to us that the alignment and fixing
protrusions/pins (30c) of Lee are not specifically designed and
intended to apply a force against the mounting brackets of the
electronic circuit board assemblies associated therewith. As
appellant has argued on page 3 of the reply briefs, the
disclosure in Lee of a pin/protrusion (30c) projecting through a
groove (26c) does not require or imply any force being exerted on
the mounting bracket portion (26a) by the pin/protrusion.
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