Appeal 2006-2970
Application 09/224,340
disclose a PCB module. Each card 70 includes a printed circuit board (PCB)
72 having a plug end 80, and which is attached to a face plate 74. Claim 1
does not recite that a PCB is "connected" to the "connector" (compare
claim 9) and so does not distinguish over the connector being part of the
PCB. Since the card includes a PCB and is modular, we fail to see why it is
not a PCB module. In any case, Harris is not relied on for the PCB module.
The rejection of claim 2 is affirmed.
Group V - claim 3
The Examiner finds that the screw 19 in Mazura is a jack screw
(Rejection 4).
Appellant argues that Mazura does not disclose a jack screw as stated
by the Examiner (Br. 11, Br. 23; see also jack screw arguments under the
discussion of claims 4 and 5, Br. 12).
The Examiner responds that "[t]he screw 19 can uses [sic] by hand or
tools to fasten the screw to the faceplate as configure [sic] as a jack-screw"
(Answer 9).
We do not understand the Examiner's position. A jack screw is a term
of art for a screw that moves a plate away from the chassis as the screw is
unscrewed (Specification 11, ll. 1-3); i.e., it "jacks" the module out of the
chassis. There is no suggestion that the screw 19 in Mazura performs this
function and the Examiner has provided no other meaning for the term
"jack screw." There is no evidence in Mazura or Harris that it was known to
use jack screws on PCB modules. The rejection of claim 3 is reversed.
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