Appeal No. 1998-0126
Application 08/272,700
(filed Mar. 3,
1992)
Claims 1, 4 through 11 and 14 through 24 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Compton in view of Myochin and Woell.
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellants
and the Examiner, reference is made to the brief and answer
for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
After a careful review of the evidence before us, we
will not sustain the rejection of claims 1, 4 through 11 and
14 through 24 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
The Examiner has failed to set forth a prima facie
case. It is the burden of the Examiner to establish why one
having ordinary skill in the art would have been led to the
claimed invention by the reasonable teachings or suggestions
found in the prior art, or by a reasonable inference to the
artisan contained in such teachings or suggestions. In re
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