Appeal No. 2000-0759
Application No. 08/772,198
to
arguments, and to appellant's brief (Paper No. 14, filed
August 16, 1999) for the arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Having carefully reviewed and evaluated the obviousness
issues raised in this appeal in light of the record before us,
we have come to the conclusion, for the reasons which follow,
that the examiner's rejection of the appealed claims under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103 will not be sustained.
The law followed by our Court of review, and thus by this
Board, is that "[a] prima facie case of obviousness is
established when the teachings from the prior art itself would
appear to have suggested the claimed subject matter to a
person of ordinary skill in the art." In re Rinehart, 531
F.2d 1048, 1051, 189 USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976). See also, In
re Lalu, 747 F.2d 703, 705, 223 USPQ 1257, 1258 (Fed. Cir.
3
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007