Ex parte DUROCHER - Page 7




          Appeal No. 98-2120                                                          
          Application No. 08/607,915                                                  


          support a given position, to the exclusion of other parts                   
          necessary to the full appreciation of what such reference                   
          fairly suggests to one of ordinary skill in the art (Bausch &               
          Lomb, Inc., v. Barnes-Hind/Hydrocurve Inc., 796 F.2d 443, 448,              
          230 USPQ 416, 419 (Fed. Cir. 1986), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 823              
          (1987) and In re Kamm, 452 F.2d 1052, 1057, 172 USPQ 298, 301-              
          02 (CCPA 1972)), and obviousness cannot be established by                   
          locating references which describe various aspects of                       
          appellants’ invention without also providing evidence of the                
          motivating force which would impel one skilled in the art to                
          do what the appellants have done (Ex parte Levengood, 28                    
          USPQ2d 1300, 1302 (Bd. Pat. App. & Int. 1993)).  Here, we find              
          no persuasive evidence of such a motivating force.  While the               
          examiner states that "Houlihan's lock #30" provides                         
          motivation, the examiner provides no explanation whatsoever as              
          to why Houlihan's lock 30 provides motivation to combine the                
          disparate teachings of Keith and Fierus, and we are at a total              
          loss to understand why this might be the case.  The examiner's              
          reference to Houlihan establishing the "equivalence of                      
          lipstick and deodorant," at the most appears to have relevance              


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