Ex parte MENEZES - Page 7




          Appeal No. 1999-0016                                                        
          Application 08/638,071                                                      


          coefficients to generate quantized coefficients.  Furthermore,              
          we fail to find that Blaschke or Agranat teaches or would have              
          suggested this limitation.                                                  
               The Federal Circuit states that “[t]he mere fact that the              
          prior art may be modified in the manner suggested by the                    
          Examiner does not make the modification obvious unless the                  
          prior art suggested the desirability of the modification.”  In              
          re Fritch, 972 F.2d 1260, 1266 n.14, 23 USPQ2d 1780, 1783-84                
          n.14 (Fed. Cir. 1992), citing In re Gordon, 733 F.2d 900, 902,              
          221 USPQ 1125, 1127 (Fed. Cir. 1984).  It is further                        
          established that “[s]uch a suggestion may come from the nature              
          of the problem to be solved, leading inventors to look to                   
          references relating to possible solutions to that problem.”                 
          Pro-mold & Tool Co. v. Great Lakes Plastics, Inc., 75 F.3d                  
          1568, 1573, 37 USPQ2d 1626, 1630 (Fed. Cir. 1996), citing In                
          re Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1054, 189 USPQ 143, 149 (CCPA                   
          1976) (considering the problem to be solved in a                            
          determination of obviousness).  The Federal Circuit reasons in              
          Para-Ordnance Mfg. Inc. v. SGS Importers Int’l Inc., 73 F.3d                
          1085, 1088-89, 37 USPQ2d 1237, 1239-40 (Fed. Cir. 1995), cert.              

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