Appeal No. 97-4293
Application No. 08/138,396
references, rather, the test for obviousness is what the
combined teachings of the references would have suggested to
one of ordinary skill in the art (see Cable Electric Products,
Inc. v. Genmark, Inc., 770 F.2d 1015, 1025, 226 USPQ 881, 886-
87 (Fed. Cir. 1985)).
Independent claims 1 and 18 stand rejected as being
unpatentable over Bourland in view of Fraser. Both of these
claims are directed to an apparatus for monitoring the
pressure at a plurality of locations along an exterior surface
of a body part of a user. The apparatus set forth in each
comprises a plurality of pressure sensors adapted to be
interposed between the body part and a surface with which it
is in contact and operative in response to the compressive
pressure between the two to generate a signal proportional to
this pressure, monitor means for receiving the force signal
and producing an output signal corresponding thereto,
processing means including command means for generating a read
signal to cause the monitor means to generate the output
signals, and at least one switch means adapted to be
positioned remotely of the processing means for producing a
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