Appeal No. 95-2855
Application 08/075,338
sustain the rejection of claims 1-11 as failing to comply with
the written description requirement of the first paragraph of 35
U.S.C. § 112.
We now consider the rejection of claims 1-11 under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Ichinose. In rejecting
claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103, it is incumbent upon the examiner
to establish a factual basis to support the legal conclusion of
obviousness. See In re Fine, 837 F.2d 1071, 1073, 5 USPQ2d 1596,
1598 (Fed. Cir. 1988). In so doing, the examiner is expected to
make the factual determinations set forth in Graham v. John Deere
Co., 383 U.S. 1, 17, 148 USPQ 459, 467 (1966), and to provide a
reason why one having ordinary skill in the pertinent art would
have been led to modify the prior art or to combine prior art
references to arrive at the claimed invention. Such reason must
stem from some teaching, suggestion or implication in the prior
art as a whole or knowledge generally available to one having
ordinary skill in the art. Uniroyal Inc. v. Rudkin-Wiley Corp.,
837 F.2d 1044, 1051, 5 USPQ2d 1434, 1438 (Fed. Cir.), cert.
denied, 488 U.S. 825 (1988); Ashland Oil, Inc. v. Delta Resins &
Refractories, Inc., 776 F.2d 281, 293, 227 USPQ 657, 664 (Fed.
Cir. 1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1017 (1986); ACS Hospital
Systems, Inc. v. Montefiore Hospital, 732 F.2d 1572, 1577, 221
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