Appeal No. 1999-2220 Page 7
Application No. 08/662,930
or from the knowledge generally available to one of ordinary
skill in the art and not from the appellant's disclosure. See,
for example, Uniroyal ,Inc. V. Rudkin-Wiley Corp., 837 F.2d
1044, 1052, 5 USPQ2d 1434, 1052 (Fed. Cir.), cert. denied, 488
U.S. 825 (1988).
Independent claims 1 and 29 also stand rejected as being
unpatentable over Iwai. We have pointed out above the subject
matter recited in claims 1 and 29 which cannot be found in
Iwai. It is our view that these shortcomings are not overcome
by considering the reference in the light of 35 U.S.C. § 103.
We therefore conclude that the teachings of Iwai fail to
establish a prima facie case of obviousness with respect to the
subject matter of claims 1 and 29, and the Section 103
rejection cannot be sustained.
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