Ex parte CHENE et al. - Page 5



                  Appeal No.  1998-0365                                                                                       
                  Application No.  08/501,336                                                                                 

                  F.2d 1132, 1143,  227 USPQ 543, 551 (Fed. Cir. 1985).  On the record before us,                             
                  we find no reasonable suggestion for combining the teachings of the references                              
                  relied upon by the examiner in a manner which would have reasonably led one of                              
                  ordinary skill in the art to arrive at the claimed invention.  Accordingly, we reverse                      
                  the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-3, 5-6 and 9-16 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as                               
                  being unpatentable over Doehner in view of Barnes.                                                          

                                                        REVERSED                                                              



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