Appeal No. 1998-2142 Page 7
Application No. 08/125,189
between the electrodes 5B and 5A, and current would not flow
through the Nakajima heating layer ...." (Appeal Br. at 21.)
Claims 3-10, 12, 13, 15-17, and 18-27 specify in
pertinent part the following limitations: "a heating region
formed by sandwiching a heating layer directly between a
pattern electrode layer and a conductive layer ...."
Similarly, claims 28-33 specify in pertinent part the
following limitations: "a heating region formed by sandwiching
a heating layer directly between a conductive layer and a
pattern electrode layer ...." Accordingly, claims 3-10, 12,
13, and 15-33 require sandwiching a heating layer directly
between a pattern electrode layer and a conductive layer.
The examiner fails to show a suggestion of the
limitations in the prior art. “Obviousness may not be
established using hindsight or in view of the teachings or
suggestions of the inventor.” Para-Ordnance Mfg. v. SGS
Importers Int’l, 73 F.3d 1085, 1087, 37 USPQ2d 1237, 1239
(Fed. Cir. 1995), cert. denied, 519 U.S. 822 (1996)(citing
W.L. Gore & Assocs., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540,
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