Appeal No. 2004-1602
Application No. 09/954,766
effecting a pivoting movement of the snubber arm relative to the
base plate (Brief, page 2).
Appellants state that the claims do not stand or fall together
(Brief, page 3). Appellants present reasonably specific,
substantive reasons for the separate patentability of several
claims (e.g., see the Brief, pages 8-9; Answer, page 2, ¶(7)). We
consider these claims separately to the extent appellants have
presented arguments for any individual claims. See 37 CFR
§ 1.192(c)(7)(2000); and In re McDaniel, 293 F.3d 1379, 1383,
63 USPQ2d 1462, 1465 (Fed. Cir. 2002). Representative independent
claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A free-standing coil reel hold-down device, comprising:
a base plate operatively arranged to be secured to a floor;
a snubber arm pivotably mounted to said base plate and
arranged for pivoting rotation about a pivot point, said snubber
arm including a first section and a second section disposed at an
obtuse angle with respect to one another; and,
a stand-alone means for effecting a pivoting movement of said
snubber arm relative to said base plate.
The examiner has relied upon the following prior art as
evidence in support of the rejections on appeal:
Orii 4,589,605 May 20, 1986
Rodriguez et al. (Rodriguez) 5,330,119 Jul. 19, 1994
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