Appeal No. 98-0384
Application No. 08/579,639
combine the teachings of Syracuse, Takahashi, Weaver and
Pomeroy in the manner that the examiner has proposed. With
respect to Syracuse and Takahashi, the examiner apparently is
proposing to extract from the teachings of Takahashi the
feature of a cover sheet (which has overhanging portions that
are adapted to be curved downwardly towards the flat end faces
of the coiled strip of photosensitive material as illustrated
by Takahashi in Fig. 28) and incorporate this feature into the
packaging of Syracuse, while at the same time retaining
Syracuse's "end cap covers" or flexible sections 18 and 20.
The examiner, however, may not pick and choose from any one
reference only so much of it as will support a given position,
to the exclusion of other parts necessary to the full
appreciation of what such reference fairly suggests to one of
ordinary skill in the art. See Bausch & Lomb, Inc., v.
Barnes-Hind/Hydrocurve Inc., 796 F.2d 443, 448, 230 USPQ 416,
419 (Fed. Cir. 1986), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 823 (1987) and In
re Kamm, 452 F.2d 1052, 1057, 172 USPQ 298, 301-02 (CCPA
1972). Here, Syracuse and Takahashi simply teach alternative
ways of covering the flat end faces of a coiled photosensitive
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