Appeal No. 97-4206
Application 08/662,263
necessary to the full appreciation of what such reference
fairly suggests to one of ordinary skill in the art. See
Bausch & Lomb, Inc., v. Barnes-Hind/Hydrocurve Inc., 796 F.2d
443, 448, 230 USPQ 416, 419 (Fed. Cir. 1986) and In re Kamm,
452 F.2d 1052, 1057, 172 USPQ 298, 301-02 (CCPA 1972).
In view of the above, we will not sustain the rejection
of claim 6 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
the admitted prior art in view of Herder or Favreau.
In summary:
The rejection of claims 1, 2, 7, 8 and 22 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over the admitted prior art in
view of Rohrer '143 is affirmed.
The rejection of claims 1, 2, 7, 8 and 22 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over the admitted prior art in
view of Brooker or Favreau is reversed.
The rejection of claims 1-4 and 22 under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over the admitted prior art in view of
Smith or Rohrer '142 is reversed.
The rejection of claims 5, 7 and 8 under 35 U.S.C. § 103
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