Appeal No. 95-0140
Application 08/002,528
851 F.2d 1401, 1403, 7 USPQ2d 1500, 1502 (Fed. Cir. 1988).
Instead, the test for obviousness is what the combined teachings
of the references would have suggested to those of ordinary skill
in the art. In re Young, 927 F.2d 588, 591, 18 USPQ2d 1089, 1091
(Fed. Cir. 1991) and In re Keller, 642 F.2d 413, 425, 208 USPQ
871, 881 (CCPA 1981). Moreover, in evaluating such references it
is proper to take into account not only the specific teachings of
the references but also the inferences which one skilled in the
art would reasonably be expected to draw therefrom. In re Preda,
401 F.2d 825, 826, 159 USPQ 342, 344 (CCPA 1968).
Here, Kono discloses an apparatus for the continuous
preparation of granules that grow in a shell-like fashion (column
8, lines 51 and 52; column 12, lines 24 and 25) comprising a
fluidized bed vessel 1, means 5b for spraying a granule-forming
liquid into the vessel (see column 13, lines 19-22), a fluidizing
means 5a for dispersing the liquid and some of the particles in
the vessel (see column 11, line 66 through column 12, line 18;
column 13, lines 17-19), a means 14 for collecting or recovering
fine granules or particles that escape from adjacent the top of
the vessel (which recovered particles Kono states “can be reused
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