Appeal No. 97-0593
Application 08/365,906
impermis-sible hindsight derived from appellant's own teachings
and not from the prior art references themselves as the teachings
thereof would have been understood by one of ordinary skill in
the art at the time of appellant's invention. Like appellant, we
view the examiner's position regarding the combination of Stashko
and Warren as being an improper "obvious to try" approach.
Having also reviewed the patents to Holma and Romagnolo
applied by the examiner against certain of the dependent claims
on appeal, we find nothing therein which would overcome or
provide for the deficiencies noted above in the teachings or
suggestions of the basic combination of Stashko and Warren.
Lacking any reasonable teachings in the prior art
itself which would appear to have fairly suggested the claimed
subject matter as a whole to a person of ordinary skill in the
art, or any viable line of reasoning as to why such artisan would
have otherwise found the claimed subject matter to have been
obvious in light of the teachings of the applied references, we
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