Appeal No. 97-3292
Application 08/522,827
The full text of the examiner's rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellants appears in the final
rejection and answer (Paper Nos. 14 and 18), while the
complete statement of appellants’ argument can be found in the
brief (Paper No. 17).
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issue
raised in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully
considered appellants’ specification and claims, the applied
patents, and the respective viewpoints of appellants and the2
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
determination which follows.
2 In our evaluation of each of the applied patents, we have considered all of the
disclosure thereof for what it would have fairly taught one of ordinary skill in the
art. See In re Boe, 355 F.2d 961, 965, 148 USPQ 507, 510 (CCPA 1966). Additionally,
this panel of the board has taken into account not only the specific teachings, but also
the inferences which one skilled in the art would reasonably have been expected to draw
from the disclosure. See In re Preda, 401 F.2d 825, 826, 159 USPQ 342, 344 (CCPA 1968).
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