Appeal No. 1997-4279
Application No. 08/486,702
accordance with 37 CFR 1.192(c)(7), we select claim 1 for
review from among the claims of the above claim grouping, with
the remaining claims standing or falling therewith.
Accordingly, we shall focus exclusively upon claims 1, 14, and
15, infra.
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issues
raised in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully
considered appellant's specification and claims, the applied
references, and the respective viewpoints of appellants and2
the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
determinations which follow.
2In our evaluation of the applied documents, we have
considered all of the disclosure of each reference for what it
would have fairly taught one of ordinary skill in the art.
See In re Boe, 355 F.2d 961, 965, 148 USPQ 507, 510 (CCPA
1966). Additionally, this panel of the board has taken into
account not only the specific teachings, but also the
inferences which one skilled in the art would reasonably have
been expected to draw from the disclosure. See In re Preda,
401 F.2d 825, 826, 159 USPQ 342, 344 (CCPA 1968).
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