Appeal No. 2000-1665
Application 08/752,529
rejections and to the main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 27 and
29) for appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In arriving at our decision on the obviousness issues
raised in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
the entire record of appellant's application, including the
specification and claims, the teachings of the applied prior
art references, the evidence of non-obviousness supplied by
appellant, and the respective positions advanced by appellant
and the examiner. Upon evaluation of the reference evidence
before us, it is our initial conclusion that the examiner has
established a prima facie case of obviousness with regard to
claims 1, 2, 4 through 8, 12 through 17, 19 through 32 and 35
on appeal based on the combined teachings of Thalenfeld and
Petrou. However, it is our further conclusion, after
consideration of all of the evidence before us, that
appellant's objective evidence of non-obviousness outweighs
the evidence of obviousness presented by the examiner, and,
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