Appeal No. 96-2297
Application 08/117,446
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issue
raised in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully
considered appellant's specification and claims, the applied
references, 3
and the respective viewpoints of appellant and the examiner.
As a consequence of our review, we make the determination
which follows.
We cannot sustain the examiner's rejection of appellant's
claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
3In our evaluation of the applied references, we have
considered all of the disclosure of each reference for what it
would have fairly taught one of ordinary skill in the art.
See In re Boe, 355 F.2d 961, 965, 148 USPQ 507, 510 (CCPA
1966). Additionally, this panel of the board has taken into
account not only the specific teachings of each reference, but
also the inferences which one skilled in the art would
reasonably have been expected to draw from the disclosure.
See In re Preda, 401 F.2d 825, 826, 159 USPQ 342, 344 (CCPA
1968).
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