Appeal 2007-0955
Application 10/297,899
point on a respective terminal connector strip, and wherein each of the at
least two output connections on the second connecting part is conducted
only to the respective terminal connector strip of the associated input
connection.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art reference to show
unpatentability:
Oka US 6,635,824 B1 Oct. 21, 2003
(filed Jul. 20, 2000)
The Examiner’s rejection is as follows:
Claims 11 and 14-21 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being
anticipated by Oka or, in the alternative, under U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious
over Oka.2
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellants or the Examiner, we
refer to the Brief and the Answer for their respective details. In this
decision, we have considered only those arguments actually made by
Appellants. Arguments which Appellants could have made but chose not to
make in the Brief have not been considered and are deemed to be waived.
See 37 C.F.R. § 41.37(c)(1)(vii).
The Examiner has indicated how the claimed invention is deemed to
be fully met by or rendered obvious over the disclosure of Oka (Answer 3-
4).
Regarding independent claim 11, Appellants argue that Oka does not
disclose or suggest the following limitations: (1) decoupling the plug input
2 The Examiner withdrew rejections based on other prior art references,
specifically Onizuka and Kasai (Answer 3). Accordingly, those references
are not before us.
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