Appeal No. 96-3763
Application 07/946,509
combine Childs and Filepp because “it would allow Childs’
system to
reduce the network complexity” and it would have been obvious
to combine Takada with this combination because “it would
allow the combined system to increase the speed of generating
headers for messages.” There is no indication, however, as to
how or why the skilled artisan would have been led to combine
the disparate systems of the references. In what manner would
the software application of Filepp be applied to Childs’
multi-stage network? What element in Childs would run the
applications software and what modifications would need to be
made to Childs in order to accommodate for such software? The
examiner does not say. The examiner merely directs us to
combine the references with no indication as to how or why.
Reasons such as “to reduce the network complexity” and “to
increase the speed” are very general and, while everyone seeks
to reduce complexity and increase speed for obvious reasons,
the examiner has pointed to nothing which would indicate how
this is to be accomplished through a combination of the refer-
ences. Yet, in response to almost all of appellants’ argu-
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