Appeal No. 1999-2108 Page 7
Application No. 08/654,371
teaching, suggestion or incentive which would have led one of
ordinary skill in the art to provide the admitted prior art
method with the changes proposed by the examiner, other than
the hindsight accorded one who first viewed the appellants’
disclosure. This, of course, is an improper basis upon which
to base a conclusion of obviousness. See In re Fritch, 972
F.2d 1260, 1266, 23 USPQ2d 1780, 1784 (Fed. Cir. 1992). In the
final analysis, the combined teachings of the admitted prior
art and Teshima fail to establish a prima facie case of
obviousness with regard to the subject matter of any of the
independent claims.
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