Appeal No. 1997-2977
Application No. 08/431,688
earth environment degradation. In this regard, § 103 does not
require that the applied prior art references be concerned
with the same problem as the appellants. In re Kemps, 97 F.3d
1427, 1430, 40 USPQ2d 1309, 1311 (Fed. Cir. 1996) (“Although
the motivation to combine here differs from that of the
applicant, the motivation in the prior art to combine the
references does not have to be identical to that of the
applicant to establish obviousness.”).
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