Appeal No. 2006-0452
Application No. 10/442,040
magnet wire. Appellants have not challenged the examiner’s reasoning of combinability
at pages 7 and 8 of the answer.
Dependent claims 13 and 14 respectively recite that their wires “are part of” a
lighting system in an a.c. voltage transmitter. The specification and appellants do not
clarify what an a.c. voltage transmitter comprises in conventional terms. It appears to
us that it may comprise a transformer of some kind. As correctly noted by the examiner,
Hake merely teaches in the initial paragraph of column 1 relating to the Background of
the Invention that magnet wires have conventionally been used as windings of
transformers and in electric motors and the like. Therefore, it appears that Hake
actually does teach use in a voltage transmitter or a transformer and we agree with the
examiner’s reasoning that transformers would ordinarily be used as a “part of” a lighting
system (claim 13) using alternating current as its source. The examiner also correctly
points out at page 12 of the answer that the intended uses of the wire in dependent
claims 13 and 14 do not ordinary give patentability to a structure claim.
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