Appeal No. 97-4247
Application No. 08/190,618
Claims 15, 17, 19 and 23-27 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Atlas in view of Price.
Claim 16 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Dillon in view of Price and Compagnie, or
Atlas in view of Price and Compagnie.
The rejections are explained in the Examiner's Answer.
The opposing viewpoints of the appellant are set forth in
the Brief on Appeal.
OPINION
The test for obviousness is what the combined teachings
of the prior art would have suggested to one of ordinary skill
in the art. See, for example, In re Keller, 642 F.2d 413,
425, 208 USPQ 871, 881 (CCPA 1981). In establishing a prima
facie case of obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103, it is
incumbent upon the examiner to provide a reason why one of
ordinary skill in the art would have been led to modify a
prior art reference or to combine reference teachings to
arrive at the claimed invention. See Ex parte Clapp, 227 USPQ
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