Appeal No. 2005-0562 Application 09/824,276 However, such an arrangement would clearly not result in a transmission assembly like that defined in the claims before us on appeal. Since we have determined that the teachings and suggestions which would have been fairly derived from the Reynolds and Jones patents would not have made the subject matter as a whole of claims 11, 13 through 16 and 19 through 27 on appeal obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of appellants’ invention, we must refuse to sustain the examiner’s rejection of those claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). 9Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007