Appeal No. 2003-0192
Application No. 08/871,300
subject matter from disparate teachings and broad concepts found
in the applied prior art. In our view, there is no motivation or
suggestion in Goetz '379 which would have reasonably led one of
ordinary skill in the art to modify the APA clamp in such a
manner as to result in appellant's claimed subject matter.
Like appellant (brief, pages 4-5), we consider that if one
of ordinary skill in the art were to evaluate the teachings of
the APA and Goetz '379, without hindsight benefit of appellant's
disclosure, such artisan would have been led to incorporate the
clamping portion with flat and arcuate portions from each
clamping jaw (3a, 5a) of Goetz '379 (Figure 5) into the two-piece
clamp of the APA (Prior Art Fig. 1) by providing such structure
(i.e., flat and arcuate portions) as a portion of each of the
first and second clamp halves (12, 14) of the APA such that the
clamp jaws shown in Prior Art Figure 1 as engaging the
cylindrical guide rod (90) would be configured so as to
accommodate and clamp circular and/or rectangular guide rods
(90), but the support member-receiving slot (16) of the APA would
remain unchanged.
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