Appeal 2007-1594
Application 10/600,379
with the ball washer attachments of Schroeder so that the mounting plate in Murray
could be mounted on an uneven, tilted or curved surface.
Furthermore, with respect to claims 14 and 15 we are in agreement with the
Examiner that it would have been obvious to use the self-aligning recesses
disclosed by Landgrebe for their disclosed purpose when securing the coupler
system to an uneven, tilted or curved surface using the ball washers disclosed in
Schroeder. We believe these modifications, taught by Schoeder and Landgrebe, to
be merely the rearrangement of old elements in a predictable manner likely to
have been obvious to one of ordinary skill. See KSR, at 127 S.Ct at 1740, 84
USPQ2d at 1396.
We have carefully reviewed the arguments of the Appellant. We note that
Appellant argues that variably positionable actually means universally adjustable.
We do not agree. We regard this gloss of the claim terminology as an attempt to
read limitations from the Specification into the claims where they do not actually
appear. We are in agreement with the Examiner that Murray discloses a variably
positionable coupler structure.
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