Ex parte TOYAMA et al. - Page 16




          Appeal No. 1996-3814                                      Page 16           
          Application No. 08/348,835                                                  
          862, 134 USPQ 292, 295 (CCPA 1962) (“We do not think a                      
          rejection under 35 U.S.C. 103 should be based on such                       
          speculations and assumptions”).  Accordingly, since the                     
          metes and bounds of the claimed invention have not yet been                 
          clarified, the obviousness rejection is improper and should be              
          reversed.                                                                   





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               JOAN ELLIS                    )     APPEALS                            
               Administrative Patent Judge   )       AND                              
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