Appeal No. 1999-0726
Application No. 08/664,432
forming standard samples (via adding water thereto). For the
reasons indicated supra, we are convinced that the examiner’s
§ 103 rejections are fatally premised upon impermissible
hindsight. See W.L. Gore & Assoc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d
1540, 1553, 220 USPQ 303, 312-13 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert.
denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).
Accordingly, the decision of the examiner is reversed.
REVERSED
EDWARD C. KIMLIN )
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ROMULO H. DELMENDO )
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