Appeal No. 1997-1907 Page 10
Application No. 08/265,369
necessarily result in the claimed process and form appellants’
claimed composition upon reaction. In this regard, the
examiner has not adequately explained how the furnished
evidence would have led one of ordinary skill in the art to
modify the diisocyanate reactants of Coogan based on the
teachings of Mosbach that were selected by the examiner in a
manner so as to arrive at the claimed invention herein and
such that the ordinarily skilled artisan would have had a
reasonable expectation of success in making this modification.
See In re Vaeck, 947 F.2d 488, 493, 20 USPQ2d 1438, 1442 (Fed.
Cir. 1991); In re O’Farrell, 853 F.2d 894, 902, 7 USPQ2d 1673,
1680 (Fed.
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