Appeal No. 97-1037
Application 08/467,869
claims 1 and 5 will be separately assessed and claims 2 and 3
stand or fall with claim 1 and claim 5, respectively, and as to
the rejection of claims 1 through 5, claims 1 and 5 will be
separately assessed and claims 2, 3 and claim 4 stand or fall
with claims 1 and 5, respectively.
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issues
raised in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully
considered appellant’s specification and claims, the applied
references, and the respective viewpoints of appellant and3
the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
determinations which follow.
3In our evaluation of the applied teachings, we have
considered all of the disclosure of each teaching for what it
would have fairly taught one of ordinary skill in the art. See
In re Boe, 355 F.2d 961, 965, 148 USPQ 507, 510 (CCPA 1966).
Additionally, this panel of the board has taken into account not
only the specific teachings, but also the inferences which one
skilled in the art would reasonably have been expected to draw
from the disclosure. See In re Preda, 401 F.2d 825, 826, 159
USPQ 342, 344 (CCPA 1968).
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