Appeal No. 2000-0226 Page 9
Application No. 08/694,200
that knowledge, is to fall victim to the insidious effect of a
hindsight syndrome wherein that which only the inventor taught
is used against its teacher." W. L. Gore & Assoc. v. Garlock,
Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1553, 220 USPQ 303, 312-13 (Fed. Cir.
1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).
Since all the limitations of claims 1 and 3 are not
taught or suggested by the applied prior art, we will not
sustain the
35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of independent claims 1 and 3, and
of dependent claims 2, 4 and 6 to 8.
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