Appeal No. 1997-3816
Application No. 08/512,313
to arrive at the claimed invention. See Ex parte Clapp, 227
USPQ 972, 973 (Bd. Pat. App. & Int. 1985). To this end, the
requisite motivation must stem from some teaching, suggestion
or inference in the prior art as a whole or from the knowledge
generally available to one of ordinary skill in the art and
not from the appellant's disclosure. See, for example,
Uniroyal ,Inc. V. Rudkin-Wiley Corp., 837 F.2d 1044, 1052, 5
USPQ2d 1434, 1052 (Fed. Cir. 1988), cert. denied, 488 U.S. 825
(1988).
Apparatus claim 1 is directed to a press section of a
paper machine including a plurality of press rolls and a pick-
up roll which, from our perspective, is exemplified in the
prior art by Laapotti ’762, the primary reference. Among the
elements recited in claim 1 is a hollow-faced press roll
situated against the suction zone of the press pick-up roll to
form a first press nip after the web is transferred to a pick-
up felt, with the first press nip being structured and
arranged to provide a low load, and an extended nip means
after the first press nip in the running direction of the web,
with the extended nip means comprising a smooth-faced press
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