Appeal No. 1997-0907
Application 08/291,642
prevent the shutter blades from inadvertently moving due to
outside shocks or the like in a manner desirable to solve the
problem isolated by appellants in the disclosed invention.
The basis of this problem is isolated in the BACKGROUND OF THE
INVENTION at column 1 of Shimada and its solution most
succinctly summarized in the paragraph bridging columns 3 and
4 of this reference.
Thus, we do not agree with appellants' assertions at
pages 5 and 6 of the principle Brief on appeal that Wang is
nonanalogous art with respect to Castor and even Shimada since
Shimada is the best example of linking the concept of stepping
motor-type structures to stepping motors per se as shown in
Wang. As well argued by the examiner at pages 6 through 8 in
addition to our own earlier discussion in this opinion, it
clearly would have been apparent to the artisan that Wang is
not only pertinent to appellants' field of invention, it is
also reasonably pertinent to the particular problem addressed
by appellants in this disclosed and claimed invention.
Considering the teaching value of the references themselves,
there would have been clear reasoning or motivation for the
artisan to have combined the collective teachings of the
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