Appeal No. 1997-4423
Application No. 08/355,009
suggestion in a particular reference. See In re Bozek, 416
F.2d 1385, 1390, 163 USPQ 545, 549 (CCPA 1969). Insofar as
the references themselves are concerned, we are bound to
consider the disclosure of each for what it fairly teaches one
of ordinary skill in the art, including not only the specific
teachings, but also the inferences which one of ordinary skill
in the art would reasonably have been expected to draw
therefrom. See In re Boe, 355 F.2d 961, 965, 148 USPQ 507,
510 (CCPA 1966) and In re Preda, 401 F.2d 825, 826, 159 USPQ
342, 344 (CCPA 1968).
The appellant’s invention is directed to an improvement
in microwave processing apparatus of the type having a housing
defining a processing chamber and first and second flat
electrodes in the processing chamber, wherein the second
electrode has a plurality of radiation ports. There seems to
be no dispute that all of the subject matter recited in
independent claim 1 is disclosed in the admitted prior art
except for the means for changing respective areas of the
radiation ports, which means comprises, in the language of the
claim,
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