Appeal No. 96-2416
Application 08/206,447
Debare’s disclosure is essentially that of a pressure responsive
switch and not an accumulator for holding a supply of pressurized
liquid for delivery downstream when the pump is off.
As our court of review indicated in In re Fritch, 972 F.2d
1260, 1266, 23 USPQ2d 1780, 1784 (Fed. Cir. 1992), it is
impermissible to use the claimed invention as an instruction
manual or “template” to piece together isolated disclosures and
teachings of the prior art so that the claimed invention is
rendered obvious. In our view, this is precisely what the
examiner has done in combining the disparate teachings of the
applied references in an effort to arrive at a facsimile of the
claimed invention.
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