Appeal No. 2003-2154
Application No. 09/735,895 Page 9
connector disposed thereon. The connector includes a housing
having a slot formed therein and a plurality of conductive bands
that communicate with circuity of the first circuit board being
disposed within the slot. The conductive bands are arranged so
that a first set of contact bands is located on one side of the
slot and a second set of contact bands is on an opposite side of
the slot with a surface of one set facing a surface of the other.
Each of those surfaces has a plurality of projecting members with
peak to valley heights of about .001 to about .99 millimeters.
In addition to our determinations above respecting Gammel,
we note that the examiner (answer, pages 5 and 6) has reasonably
found that Gammel would have taught or suggested to one of
ordinary skill in the art that the electrical connector disclosed
therein is capable of connecting printed circuit boards as called
for in representative claim 15. Consequently, for the reasons
stated in the answer and above, we determine that the teachings
of Gammel would have rendered the subject matter of claim 15
prima facie obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the
time the invention was made.
Moreover, for the reasons stated above, appellants’
arguments concerning the height of the projections are not
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