Appeal No. 96-2068
Application 08/157,580
not found in that reference or, indeed, in either of the other references. Thus, it is inescapable that the
combined references applied by the examiner taken as a whole would not have resulted in the claimed
method. Uniroyal, Inc. v. Rudkin-Wiley Corp., 837 F.2d 1044, 1050-54, 5 USPQ2d 1434, 1438-
41 (Fed. Cir.), cert. denied, 488 U.S. 825 (1988). Accordingly, it is manifest that the only direction to
appellant’s claimed invention as a whole on the record before us is supplied by appellant’s own
specification. Fine, supra; Dow Chem., supra.
The examiner’s decision is reversed.
Reversed
MARC L. CAROFF )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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CHARLES F. WARREN ) BOARD OF PATENT
Administrative Patent Judge ) APPEALS AND
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TERRY J. OWENS )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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