Appeal No. 2000-0530
Application No. 08/811,192
The full text of the examiner’s rejections and response
to the argument presented by appellants appears in the final
rejection and answer (Paper Nos. 14 and 20), while the
complete statement of appellants’ argument can be found in the
main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 19 and 22).
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issues
raised in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully
considered appellants’ specification and claims, the applied
teachings,2 and the respective viewpoints of appellants and
the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
determinations which follow.
2 In our evaluation of the applied prior art, we have
considered all of the disclosure of each document 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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