Appeal No. 96-3763
Application 07/946,509
ences cannot be combined in some manner to arrive at the
instant claimed subject matter. We merely find that the
examiner has not done so in the instant case. In order to
establish the requisite prima facie case, the examiner must
present some convincing line of reasoning as to why the
skilled artisan would have been led to combine the teachings
of the applied references in such a manner so as to arrive at
the instant claimed subject matter.
The examiner’s decision rejecting claims 20 through
24, 27 through 31 and 34 through 36 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is
reversed.
REVERSED
KENNETH W. HAIRSTON )
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