Appeal No. 2006-2169 Page 3
Application No. 09/899,919
when said stopper is inserted into said mounting hole along said
cord receiving hole portion, said each of said blade portions penetrates
into a covering portion of said optical fiber cord, with the positioning slit
being perpendicular to the axis of said optical fiber cord, while said each of
the blade portions removes a portion of said covering portion, thereby
fixing said optical fiber cord along the axis of said optical fiber cord.
3. An optical connector according to claim 1, wherein the side edge
of said positioning slit for said each of the blade portions projects a gable
wedge having a cross-section corner along a thickness midline of the side
edge for said each of the blade portions, the cross-section corner
extending toward said positioning slit.
4. An optical connector according to claim 1, wherein the distal end
edge of said plate-like portion slants from a first cross-section face of said
plate-like portion to a second cross-section face of said plate-like portion.
Claims 1-4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over U.S. Patent
No. 5,452,386 ("van Woesik ") and U.S. Patent No. 6,174,091 ("Herrmann").
II. OPINION
At the outset, we note that the appellant’s principal brief contain numerous
references to specific line numbers of his specification. (App. Br. at 2-4, 11, 13, 17.)
Although such precision is welcome, the specification itself omits line numbers. The
appellant should number the lines of his specifications to facilitate reference thereto.
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