Appeal No. 97-1647 Page 23
Application No. 08/321,255
as a whole, do not suggest the claimed subject
matter, and shall include, as may be appropriate, an
explanation of why features disclosed in one
reference may not properly be combined with features
disclosed in another reference. A general argument
that all the limitations are not described in a
single reference does not satisfy the requirements
of this paragraph.
In summary, section 1.192 provides that just as the court is
not under any burden to raise or consider issues not argued by
the appellants, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
is also not under any such burden.
CONCLUSION
To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject
claims 1 and 4-6 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is affirmed. His
decision to reject claims 2-3 and 7-21 under § 103 is
reversed. Accordingly, we affirm-in-part.
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