Appeal No. 2006-1149
Application No. 10/296,406
connector, as argued by Appellant. As a design choice, such reversed orientation of
electrical connectors would clearly have a reasonable expectation of success with predictable
results that would be well within the knowledge of one of ordinary skill in the art at the time
of the invention. See Graham v. John Deere Co., 383 U.S. 1, 86 S.Ct. 684 (1966); In re
Gazda, 42 CCPA 770, 773, 219 F.2d 449, 451 (1955); See also In re Kuhle, 526 F.2d 553,
555 (CCPA 1975).
In summary, we have not sustained the examiner’s rejection of claim 20 under
35 U.S.C. § 112, but we have sustained the examiner’s rejection of all the claims on appeal
under 35 U.S.C. § 103. Therefore, the decision of the examiner rejecting claims 10-20 is
affirmed.
No time period for taking any subsequent action in connection with this appeal may
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