Ex parte SHIELDS E AL. - Page 8




          Appeal No. 2000-1625                                                        
          Application No. 08/942,618                                                  


          skill with any suggestion or motivation to use adhesive in the              
          Verse apparatus in the manner claimed.  Any such modification               
          of Verse would be based on improper hindsight derived from                  
          appellants' own disclosure.                                                 
                                     Conclusion                                       
               The examiner's decision to reject claims 1 to 9 is                     
          reversed.                                                                   


                                      REVERSED                                        


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