Appeal No. 96-1856
Application 08/193,324
nonanalogous from the point of view that it is directed to
postage meter operations, it is also nonanalogous from the
point of view that his solutions are concerned with infinite
loop lockout situations. This is most simply expressed in
Obrea in the summary of the invention at column 2 as well as
the last two paragraphs at column 4 of his patent. Since
Supino operates in Figure 3 in accordance with a fixed number
of loop attempts, that is, the number 5, the operation of
Supino's head recovery operational system would not ordinarily
be faced with the situation of having to contend with infinite
loop lockout situations.
Similarly, even if we were to agree with the examiner's
view that Obrea would have been analogous art to be available
for combination with Supino within 35 U.S.C. § 103, we find
that the artisan would not have done so for the same last
stated reason. Even considering the teachings of Obrea from
an analogous art
perspective, we find that the artisan perhaps would have found
some pertinence of the teachings of this reference to the
problems encountered by the inventor but that these teachings
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