Appeal No. 2005-1577
Application No. 09/581,159 Page 13
The examiner relies on Winter for reasons discussed in the
answer, as outlined above for the separate rejection of claim 1,
and relies on Shukuri and Marquardt for teaching a grinding step
in forming glass laminates. However, the examiner does not
fairly explain why one of ordinary skill in the art would combine
Shukuri’s method of forming a stepped portion of a windowpane by
grinding that is used in reducing discontinuities between a
vehicle body and a window pane and/or why one of ordinary skill
in the art would employ the pane grinding step of Marquardt that
is used in conjunction with a specified emulsion, such as a
transparent or translucent ethylene polymer that breaks upon
contact with perimeter edge surfaces for penetrating into the
micro structure of a perimeter edge, with the antenna connector
of Winter and the method of applying such a connector. The
examiner’s proposed benefit of reducing wind noise and reducing
water penetration as a rationale (answer, pages 10 and 11) does
not address how one of ordinary skill in the art would have been
led to use that proposed grinding step in conjunction with the
antenna connector of Winter such that the antenna connector
application could be used therewith in a fashion such that the
antenna connector would function as an opaque protective layer as
claimed yet continue to function as the requisite antenna
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