Appeal No. 2002-2024
Application No. 09/197,404
a portion of the inner surface of a male connecting member
forming a substantially spherical inner surface therein and a one
piece liner having a substantially spherical inner surface and an
outer spherical surface in cooperation with a portion of the
inner surface of the male connection member as taught by Narkon
so as to obtain certain benefits specifically noted on pages 3-5
of the examiner's answer.
Like appellant, our review of the patents to Wallace '679,
Daugherety '819 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 Daugherety '819, and a self-aligning track
roller as in Narkon) in the manner posited by the examiner. In
that regard, we direct attention to pages 9-13 of the brief and
pages 2-3 of the reply brief, noting our agreement with
appellant's arguments therein. None of Wallace '679, Daugherety
'819, or Narkon disclose, teach, or suggest a male connection
member in a railway car connection assembly constructed in the
particular manner required by appellant's claims on appeal,
wherein at least a portion of the inner surface (15) of the male
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