Appeal No. 2005-0096
Application No. 09/765,098
installation. To cure the shortcomings of Geschwender in this
regard, the examiner turns to Snyder and Spease.
Snyder discloses a modular lounge construction consisting of
a number of interconnected chair units. To effect the
interconnections, the construction includes sockets 14 and rod
members 35 sized for insertion into the sockets. The ends 36 of
the rod members are frusto-conical, i.e, chamfered, to expedite
the insertion process (see column 3, lines 61 through 63).
Spease discloses “a motion transmitting remote control
assembly of the type for transmitting motion in a curved path by
a flexible motion transmitting core element” (column 1, lines 5
through 8). The assembly includes an elongated member 28 formed
of a zinc plated rod (see column 5, lines 12 through 14).
In proposing to combine Geschwender, Snyder and Spease to
reject claim 1, the examiner concludes that it would have been
obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having
ordinary skill in the art (1) “to modify the U-shaped frame
portions of [Geschwender’s] chair to have chamfered ends as
taught by Snyder in order to facilitate receipt of the frame
portions within the L-shaped connectors” (answer, page 4) and (2)
“to have the U-shaped frame portions and L-shaped connectors of
[Geschwender’s] chair be Zinc plated [as taught by Spease] to
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