Appeal No. 2005-0005
Application No. 10/156,568
the predetermined distance between the first and second terminals of the paired cables.
Hansell at column 3, lines 52 and 53 states that the conductor 15 is either
soldered or welded to the signal contact 12. Hansell discloses in figures 1, 4, 7, 9, and
11 that the conductors are coaxial cables and that other coaxial cables are suitable.
Therefore, there is no specific teaching of paired cables.
Figure 3 of Hansell and column 4, lines 5-8, disclose that the signal and ground
pins engage with a spring finger 8 which we find would tend to deflect the conductor and
would not teach the limitation of a lower surface of an insulator with contacts for
engagement “without altering the predetermined distance.” Additionally, the other
figures are silent with respect to the contacts, but Figure 17 does disclose the use of
the integral spring finger 8 as discussed above. (Hansell at column 5, lines 27-30)
Therefore, we do not find a disclosure of “an insulator plate having a predetermined
thickness” with “a first plurality of signal contacts formed thereon” and “a lower surface
opposite the upper surface, wherein the lower surface comprises a second plurality of
signal contacts formed thereon, and each of the second plurality of signal contacts is
aligned” and we find that the examiner has not clearly identified such teachings within
Hansell.
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