Appeal No. 2000-0948 Page 8
Application No. 08/511,341
1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984). It is essential
that "the decisionmaker forget what he or she has been taught
. . . about the claimed invention and cast the mind back to
the time the invention was made . . . to occupy the mind of
one skilled in the art who is presented only with the
references, and who is normally guided by the then-accepted
wisdom in the art." Id. Since the subject of claim 1, as a
whole, is not taught or suggested by the applied prior art, we
will not sustain the
35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of independent claim 1, and of
dependent claims 3 to 24.
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