Appeal No. 2005-0832
Application 10/039,015
and a track engaging member being a cantilevered leaf spring as
recited in claim 16 (FR2). The examiner finds that Ishida
teaches a catch being spring biased by the cantilevered leaf
spring 28 and concludes that it would have been obvious for the
catch in Johnson to be spring biased by a cantilevered leaf
spring in view of Ishida to prevent jamming (FR2). The examiner
concludes that the structure of Johnson as modified by Ishida
discloses the steps of claim 11 (FR3).
OPINION
Grouping of claims
The dependent claims are grouped to stand or fall together
with their respective independent claim (Br5).
Content of Johnson and Ishida
Johnson discloses a personal computer (PC) card having an
extensible antenna (e.g., antenna 80 on retractable connector 24
in Fig. 2, but the antenna can be on any embodiment), a coil
spring (e.g., compression spring 76 in Figs. 2-5 and 8 and
compression spring 92 in Figs. 3 and 8), and a track to guide the
antenna (Figs. 8 and 9; col. 11, lines 56-62; guide rails 90 in
Fig. 9 (96 in specification) and 98 on the retractable connector
24 fit within grooves in the communication card--the grooves in
which guide rails 96 and 98 move are considered to be the track).
Johnson discloses a cam system 102 having a cam follower 104
pivotable about an axis 108 which rides in a cam track 106 in the
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