Appeal No. 95-1640
Application 07/752,138
the burden of going forward to applicants. The examiner has
not provided any such evidence. The examiner's reliance upon
the expression "similarly substituted naphthalenes and
anthracenes" as suggestive of thianthrene is misplaced.
Forbus at column 5, line 40 describes a number of exemplary
substituted benzene compounds useful in the Forbus invention.
The expression "similarly substituted naphthalenes and
anthracenes" is suggestive of similarly substituted compounds
based on naphthalene and anthracene as the exemplified benzene
derivatives. Accordingly on this record, the examiner has not
established anticipation nor a prima facie case of obviousness
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