Appeal No. 97-3030 Application No. 08/254,181 uniform, clean radiant heat. With such a teaching in mind, in view of Pons Pons’ teaching of using a heating element adjacent a fragrance bar to heat the fragrance bar in an air freshener, it is our view that the skilled artisan would have found it obvious to employ a porcelain enamel metal substrate to heat the fragrance bar in Pons Pons. Appellants contend that Hedden is not analogous art and therefore would not be combinable with Pons Pons. We disagree for the reasons stated supra with regard to Yamamoto. That is, although Hedden is not directed to air fresheners, the artisan looking for heating elements to use in Pons Pons, which suggests the use of a heating resistance but is not tied to any particular heating element, would have looked to the heating arts of which Hedden is a part. Hedden is clearly reasonably pertinent to the problem, i.e., heating, with which appellants were concerned. We do not find the examiner’s rejection to be unreasonable because Hedden is not directed to either air fresheners or to any particular application of the disclosed heating panels. The rejection is based on a combination of references, e.g., Pons Pons and Hedden. The artisan looking 8Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007