Appeal No. 2004-1317
Application No. 10/143,377
manufacturing spring units for mattresses, as disclosed by
Kelly et al., for reducing space, shipping, and storing problems
(column 1, lines 9-12)" (page 4 of Answer, second paragraph).
Moreover, from a somewhat different perspective, we find that it
would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art,
based on the Kelly teaching, to secure insulator material on the
spring units of the prior art before the admittedly known step of
roll-packing.
As for the specific securing elements of separately argued
claims 13, 14, 15 and 24, the examiner has taken official notice
that the claimed taping, extruding, hog ringing and application
of C-shaped securing elements are well-known securing techniques.
Appellants have not refuted this finding of the examiner but only
urge that Kelly does not expressly disclose such securing means.
Appellants make no argument that the claimed securing means were
unknown in the art, nor have appellants articulated why one of
ordinary skill in the art would have found it nonobvious to
employ the recited means for securing the insulator material to
the spring units. In our view, the examiner has properly cited
Kelly at column 1, lines 27-30 and column 3, lines 53-63 as
evidence that it would have been obvious for one of ordinary
skill in the art to select the particular securing elements
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