Appeal No. 2005-0288 Page 19
Application No. 10/075,786
The appellants' argument is unpersuasive. It is our opinion that Holt's teaching of
end cap 19 (see Figure 6D) provides sufficient motivation to have made it obvious at the
time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to add an end
cap to the closure device of Andrieu as modified by Holland so as to close off the end of
a cable or hose.
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 13
and 39 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is affirmed.
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