Appeal No. 2002-1822
Application No. 09/197,164
examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art at the time of appellant's invention to
modify Wallace to include the use of a retainer member engageable
with at least a portion of the inner surface of a male connecting
member forming a substantially spherical inner surface including
a portion of the inner surface of the male connection member in
his advantageous connection assembly as taught by Narkon so as to
obtain certain benefits specifically noted on page 4 of the
examiner's answer.
Like appellant, our review of the patents to Wallace '679
and Narkon finds no teaching, suggestion, or motivation for a
combination of the disparate devices disclosed therein (i.e., a
coupling apparatus for semi-permanently connecting adjacent ends
of a pair of railway cars together as in Wallace '679 and a self-
aligning track roller as in Narkon) in the manner posited by the
examiner. In that regard, we direct attention to pages 9-12 of
the brief and pages 2-3 of the reply brief, noting our agreement
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coorporates with the spherical member. As long as a
one piece liner can be viewed from the drawings, the
reference doesn't have to mention that the liner is a
single piece.
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