Appeal No. 98-0459
Application 08/658,719
22 along with one or more bottles 18 of contact lens solutions
(Figs. 1, 3, and 4) on a base 14. The base with the
aforementioned components is stored within a storage box.
Accordingly, Jessen reveals to us an absence of at least one
additional lens storage compartment exterior of the storage box
(main storage compartment), as now claimed.
Nathan (Fig. 10) is fairly viewed as simply teaching an
arrangement of one pair of externally mounted lens cases.
Collectively assessed, it is at once apparent to us that the
references described, supra, simply do not address and would not
have been suggestive of the now claimed contact lens storage
compartment having at least one additional lens storage
compartment “exterior” to the covered main storage compartment.
As to the disclosure of the Artz patent, it clearly does not
overcome the deficiencies of the Jessen, Cuppari, and Nathan
patents. Since the evidence of obviousness before us lacks a
suggestion for the claimed invention, the rejections of
appellants’ claims are appropriately reversed.
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