Appeal No. 2007-0023
Application No. 10/410,854
Nodière considers to have an ordinary look. Nodière does not
indicate that if the bolt had open ends it would have the
ordinary look.
For the above reasons we conclude that the examiner has not
established a prima facie case of obviousness of the inventions
claimed in the appellant’s claims 24, 27, 30, 31, 33-35 and 50.
Claims 38, 44 and 50
Claims 38 and 50 require a fastener that is axially hollow
completely through the fastener. Claim 44 requires (and claim 38
also requires) a threaded fastener having a hollow shank portion
between a head portion and a threaded portion, and an outer wall
forming an arc extending the entire distance between a bottom
surface of the head portion and the first thread closest to the
head portion. Claim 50 also requires a “shank portion having
means extending continuously along the entire extent of said
shank portion for elastically deforming to axially preload said
fastener.”
Wescott discloses a metal sucker rod that is used in pumping
wells (page 1, lines 15-19). The sucker rod can be a box and pin
type rod having at one end an externally threaded pin and at the
other end an internally threaded socket or box, or can be a
double pin rod having, at each of its ends, a threaded pin that
screws into a separate female coupling (page 1, lines 25-34). To
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