Ex parte ENDO et al. - Page 6




          Appeal No. 1997-3028                                                        
          Application 08/290,083                                                      



                    We will not sustain the rejection of claims 1, 3 and              
          5 through 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.                                         
                    The Examiner has failed to set forth a prima facie                
          case.  It is the burden of the Examiner to establish why one                
          having ordinary skill in the art would have been led to the                 
          claimed invention by the express teachings or suggestions                   
          found in the prior art, or by implications contained in such                
          teachings or suggestions.  In re Sernaker, 702 F.2d 989, 995,               
          217 USPQ 1, 6 (Fed. Cir. 1983).  "Additionally, when determin-              
          ing obviousness, the claimed invention should be considered as              
          a whole; there is no legally recognizable 'heart' of the                    
          invention."  Para-Ordnance Mfg. v. SGS Importers Int'l, Inc.,               
          73 F.3d 1085, 1087, 37 USPQ2d 1237, 1239 (Fed. Cir. 1995),                  
          cert. denied, 519 U.S. 822 (1996) citing W. L. Gore & Assoc.,               
          Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1548, 220 USPQ 303, 309               
          (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).                        
                    On page 10 of the brief, Appellants argue that the                
          apparatus claims require (1) the gas section members, (2) the               
          first gas, which prior to detection of an abnormality is the                
          only                                                                        

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