Appeal No. 1999-1542
Application No. 08/806,864
court to examine the claims in greater detail than argued by an
appellant, looking for nonobviousness distinctions over the
prior art.”); In re Wiechert, 370 F.2d 927, 936, 152 USPQ 247,
254 (CCPA 1967)(“This court has uniformly followed the sound
rule that an issue raised below which is not argued in that
court, even if it has been properly brought here by reason of
appeal is regarded as abandoned and will not be considered. It
is our function as a court to decide disputed issues, not to
create them.”).
At the very outset, we notice that claims 12, 13, 15, 17,
18, 21, 22, 25, 35, 36, 44, 45, and 47 are grouped together in
one group, and claim 16 is grouped together in group 2.
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