Appeal No. 1998-1094
Application 08/497,064
Rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103
There are two separate sets of claims rejected on two
separate grounds. However, we first outline the criteria for
a rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As a general proposition
in an appeal involving a rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103, an
Examiner is under a burden to make out a prima facie case of
obviousness. If that burden is met, the burden of going
forward then shifts to the applicant to overcome the prima
facie case with argument and/or evidence. Obviousness is then
determined on the basis of the evidence as a whole and the
relative persuasiveness of the arguments. See In re Oetiker,
977 F.2d 1443, 1445, 24 USPQ2d 1443, 1444 (Fed. Cir. 1992); In
re Hedges, 783 F.2d 1038, 1039, 228 USPQ 685, 686 (Fed. Cir.
1986); In re Piasecki, 745 F.2d 1468, 1472, 223 USPQ 785, 788
(Fed. Cir. 1984); and In re Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1052, 189
USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976).
Now we analyze the two sets of claims separately.
Claims 5 to 20
These claims are rejected over Dupressoir and APA. We
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