Ex parte PRUITT - Page 6




          Appeal No. 96-1988                                                          
          Application No. 08/172,290                                                  

               Such reasoning sounds, to us, like hindsight.  Just                    
          because a certain technique "would have helped programmers"                 
          does not mean that it would have been obvious to artisans,                  
          within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. 103, to have provided such a                
          technique.  There is no evidence of record, other than                      
          appellant’s own disclosure, that would have suggested the                   
          prevention of the crossing of two lines connecting flow forms.              

























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