Appeal No. 95-4589
Application 08/042,888
endeavor, but also any analogous arts. Heidelberger
Druckmaschinen AG v. Hantscho Commercial Products Inc., 21
F.3d 1068, 1072, 30 USPQ2d 1377, 1379 (Fed. Cir. 1994). The
test of whether a reference is from a non-analogous art is
first, whether it is within the field of the inventor's
endeavor, and second, if it is not, whether it is reasonably
pertinent to the particular problem with which the inventor
was involved. In re Wood, 599 F.2d 1032, 1036, 202 USPQ 171,
174 (CCPA 1979). A reference is reasonably pertinent if, even
though it may be in a different field of endeavor, it is one
which because of the matter with which it deals, logically
would have commended itself to an inventor's attention in
considering his problem. In re Clay, 966 F.2d 656, 659, 23
USPQ2d 1058, 1061 (Fed. Cir. 1992). Here, the problems of
providing a control circuit for a light and enclosing that
control circuitry within a housing for the light are not
unique to just “safety” lights. By the very nature of such
problems one of ordinary skill in this art would have
consulted lights in general for such features and,
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