Appeal No. 2004-1074
Application No. 09/924,772
With regard to the modification of Cohen in view of Okamoto
proposed by the examiner, the combined teachings of these
references at most would have suggested overmolding plastic about
Cohen’s filter assembly 18. These prior art teachings contain no
suggestion for including Cohen’s rear perforated insulated block
14 in the overmolded plastic. Thus, the overmolded plastic would
extend only about the central portions of Cohen’s pins 16,
leaving the opposite ends of the pins free to an extent similar
to that illustrated in Okamoto’s Figure 2. To explain away the
ostensible failure of such structure to meet the limitations in
claims 1 and 13 requiring the plastic pin holder to be overmolded
about portions of the termination ends of the terminal pins, the
examiner contends that the appellants’ specification and claims
define each terminal pin as being divided into two parts or
halves, i.e. a mating end and a termination end, and that Cohen’s
pins may be similarly construed, with the result that an
overmolding extending about the central portions of Cohen’s pins
also would extend about portions of the termination ends of the
pins (see page 8 in the answer and the marked up copy of Cohen’s
Figure 12A appended to the answer). The appellants’
specification and claims, however, contain no such definition of
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