Appeal 2007-1448
Application 10/601,325
the getter in said first section and said second section in said inner surface” to
mean that the clip acts on the getter by a non-positive connection. (Specification
10:18) Further, page 12, lines 5-8 of the Specification describes the relationships
between the clip and the container, and between the clip and the getter as one
which “braces” not only the clip in place in the container, but also “braces” the
getter in the clip by the elastic forces acting on it by the second and first sections,
respectively.
Pohle shows a spider 18 which supports a gettering loop 19 within a
container using circumferentially disposed spring legs 22 to mount the clip to the
container. The legs 22 of Pohl’s spider 18 ultimately support the getter in the inner
surface of the container. (Finding of Fact 3) The spider includes fingers 26 which
do the actual supporting of the getter. (Finding of Fact 2) Therefore, legs 22
correspond to the second section of the claimed clip and fingers 26 correspond to
the first section.
That leaves only the question of whether Pohl shows a flexurally rigid
connection between the two sections such that they are “elastically deformable to
brace the getter in said first section and [brace the] second section in said inner
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