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                     Appeal No. 1997-4365                                                                                                                                              
                     Application 08/469,726                                                                                                                                            

                     omitted.]”).                                                                                                                                                      
                                Accordingly, it is manifest that the only direction to appellants’ claimed invention as a whole on                                                     
                     the record before us is supplied by appellants’ own specification.  In re Vaeck, 947 F.2d 488, 493, 20                                                            
                     USPQ2d 1438, 1442 (Fed. Cir. 1991), citing In re Dow Chemical Co., 837 F.2d 469, 473, 5                                                                           
                     USPQ2d 1529, 1531(Fed. Cir. 1988)(“Both the suggestion and the reasonable expectation of success                                                                  
                     must be founded in the prior art, not in the applicant’s disclosure.”).                                                                                           
                                The examiner’s decision is reversed.                                                                                                                   
                                                                                    Reversed                                                                                           













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