Appeal No. 1998-3385
Application No. 08/601,551
would have reasonably expected to use the solution that is
claimed by Appellants. However, "[o]bviousness may not be
established using hindsight or in view of the teachings or
suggestions of the invention." Para-Ordnance, 73 F.3d at
1087, 37 USPQ2d at 1239, citing W. L. Gore & Assocs., Inc. v.
Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d at 1551, 1553, 220 USPQ at 311, 312-
13.
In addition, our reviewing court requires the Patent and
Trademark Office to make specific findings on a suggestion to
combine prior art references. In re Dembiczak, 175 F.3d 994,
1000-01, 50 USPQ2d 1614, 1617-19 (Fed. Cir. 1999).
In the instant application, the person of ordinary skill
in the art would not have reasonably been expected to look to
the on-screen note cards of Vu/Post as a means for providing a
pointer or visual indicator in a system as disclosed by
Borovoy for displaying a computer model. Nor would he have
looked to a system for retrieval of information associated
with an on-screen figure as found in Woosley and a system of
using a three-dimensional pointer as found in Lisle to provide
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