Appeal No. 2003-1232
Application No. 09/498,268
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
An electrical connector comprising:
a common housing having grooves, circuit boards carried by the housing, the circuit
boards having edges that are disposed in the grooves, the circuit boards extending parallel to
each other in spaced-apart relationship, each of the circuit boards including a substrate and
conductive tracks integrally formed on the substrate, the conductive tracks providing electrical
paths through the connector, the electrical paths extending from a mating interface at one end of
the connector to a mounting interface at another end of the connector.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Paagman 6,083,047 July 4, 2000
(filed Jan. 16, 1997)
Claims 1 through 3 and 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by
Paagman.
Claims 4 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness, the
examiner relies upon Paagman alone.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the examiner, reference is made to
the Brief (no reply brief has been filed) and to the Answer for the respective positions thereof.
OPINION
We sustain both stated rejections of the claims on appeal. As noted at page 3 of the Brief,
claims 1 through 6 stand together. We note also that no arguments are presented in the argument
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