Appeal No. 1997-3797 Page 6
Application No. 08/121,820
F.2d 1572, 1577, 221 USPQ 929, 933 (Fed. Cir. 1984). And
"teachings of references can be combined only if there is some
suggestion or incentive to do so." Id. Here, the applied
prior art does not contain teachings for a person having
ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made
to have arrived at the claimed invention.
All the claims under appeal require automatically
reading, via a bar code reader, a bar code of a bag holding a
blood product via software which automatically confirms by the
bar code if the bag is approved for medical treatment (i.e.,
irradiation), automatically performing medical treatment
(i.e., irradiating the bag with ultraviolet radiation) if the
bag is approved but automatically terminating the process
without medical treatment (i.e., no ultraviolet radiation) if
the bag carries a bar code indicating that the bag is not
approved. In our view, these limitations are not suggested by
the applied prior art. In that regard, while Brown does teach
a hospital error avoidance system and Cooke does teach a bar
code label on a drug vial that interacts with bar code reader
and computer on a pump housing, these teachings do not teach
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