Appeal 2006-2970
Application 09/224,340
obvious to provide the handle in McKenzie on the faceplate in Mazura to
make it easier to remove the module from the cabinet (Rejection 7).
Appellant argues (Br. 18-19) that McKenzie fails to disclose "a slot,"
"a flexible handle member having substantially the same dimensions as said
slot," the handle moving "between a retracted position and a use position,"
and "said flexible handle member lies within said slot in said retracted
position and said flexible handle member extends out from said slot in said
use position," as recited in claims 12 and 21, and, further, where one end of
the handle member "does not move when said flexible handle member
moves between said retracted position and said use position," as recited in
claim 21. It is argued that the handle in McKenzie is not slideably attached,
but is attached to pins mounted on a circuit board and is made to lock in
position, and modifying the handle in McKenzie would render it improper
for its intended purpose of locking it in position (Br. 19).
The Examiner responds that McKenzie teaches a flexible handle
mounted to a faceplate (Answer 8).
McKenzie disclose a flexible self-locking handle for mounting
modules to a rack. The handle has a retracted position where the handle lies
flat and a use position where the handle extends out from the flat position.
Figure 8 shows an embodiment where the flexible handle pivots on a pin 79
at one end and which has a slot which slides over a fixed pin 81 at the other
end, which meets the limitation of claim 21 that one "end of said flexible
handle member does not move when said flexible handle member moves
between said retracted position and said use position." The handle in
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