Appeal No. 1997-0800
Application No. 08/382,926
or suggestions of the inventor." Para-Ordnance Mfg. v. SGS
Importers Int’l, 73 F.3d at 1087, 37 USPQ2d at 1239, citing W.
L.
Gore & Assocs., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d at 1551, 1553,
220 USPQ at 311, 312-13.
As pointed out above, we see no motivation to
combine the cited references, nor how any resulting
combination would meet the limitations of Appellant’s two
independent claims. Thus
we will not sustain the Examiner’s rejection of claims 21 and
26. Likewise, since the remaining claims on appeal also
contain the above limitations, we will not sustain the
Examiner’s rejection of claims 22 through 25 and 27 through
30.
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