Appeal No. 96-3845
Application No. 08/209,260
handling different sized capsules and including a housing with
means for “slidably receiving” the first and second plates. Once
again, it is clear to us that one of ordinary skill in the art
would not have been motivated to make the proposed modification
since it would have clearly necessitated an entire reworking of
the Feton apparatus, contrary to the single capsule size teaching
thereof, and particularly since the secondary references each
reflect distinctly different structural apparatus relative to the
loading device and capsule filling machine of the Feton Brochure.
In summary, this panel of the board has
reversed the rejection of claim 21 under 35 USC § 103 as
being unpatentable over the Feton International brochure, and
reversed the rejection of claims 1 through 3, 19, and 22
through 24 under 35 USC § 103 as being unpatentable over the
Feton International brochure in view of any of Norelli, Inman, or
Austin.
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