Appeal No. 2003-0106
Application 09/502,680
error in the findings regarding operation of the carriage or
plate holder (34) of Shannon requires us to refuse to sustain
this rejection as well.
Replacing the method of the APA, where three workers were
used to replace a plate on the blade of a plow or grader, with
the method of Shannon, wherein a dolly (10) is used to support a
blade or plate (12) and assist in adjustably positioning the same
to effect registration of the blade/plate fastening holes with
corresponding holes of the moldboard/blade, merely results in the
method of Shannon, which we have indicated above does not teach
or suggest appellants’ claimed method involving “incrementally”
angularly adjusting the height of the holder and thereby the
height of the at least one plate “incrementally.”
Regarding the examiner’s rejection of dependent claim 24
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over the APA,
Shannon and Pistole, we have reviewed the additional reference to
Pistole, but find nothing therein which overcomes or provides for
the deficiencies we have identified above with regard to the
basic combination of the APA and Shannon. Accordingly, the
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