Appeal No. 2000-0331
Application No. 08/822,145
were changed. Therefore, in accordance with the
original disclosure, I believe that the ordinarily
skilled artisan would be able to repeat the
empirical determination of the settings for the
coarse cleaner for each type of bale or group of
bales to be utilized in the textile process. Once
established, it is my considered opinion that the
ordinarily skilled artisan, in accordance with the
original disclosure, would be able to store the
empirically determined settings in a microcomputer
adapted to automatically adjust the coarse cleaner
settings. In this manner, adjustment of the coarse
cleaner settings would occur without necessitating
the time consuming stopping of the textile process
to manually adjust the coarse cleaner settings, as
required in the prior art. For a particular fiber
material bale, using the disclosed information and
knowledge that is common in the art, I believe that
the ordinarily skilled artisan would be able to
determine the optimum settings for the coarse
cleaning device . . . . Because the amount of time
for determining the optimum settings of the coarse
cleaner in accordance with the empirical
determination of the present invention is
substantially the same amount of time as was
required in the prior art to determine the optimum
settings for the coarse cleaner for a particular
fiber material bale, it is my conclusion that no
undue experimentation would be necessary, nor would
there be any particular hardship in practicing the
claimed invention. Further, because the ordinarily
skilled artisan is familiar with storing values in a
microcomputer, I believe that the ordinarily skilled
artisan would be able to store the optimally
established settings in a microcomputer for each
fiber material bale to be utilized in the process.
Based upon declarant’s admission that the coarse fiber
cleaning machine settings involve nothing more than automating
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