Appeal No. 1996-0208 Application 08/098,153 Initially, we note that while Dowd appears to describe a “retrofit” application (column 3, lines 35-39) in that Dowd’s invention “may be operatively integrated with a prior art plate forming machine . . . ,” Dowd contains no teaching or suggestion that his “improvement over the prior art” should be further modified by any additional retrofitting operations. 6Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007