Appeal No. 2000-1267 Page 6
Application No. 08/843274
step, and there is nothing in Inoue to suggest that the temperature regulation be applied at
that point. In fact, the reference actually teaches away from the appellants’ method in that it
is only during the mixing step, and at no other point in the method, that Inoue considers
temperature regulation to be necessary.
It is our conclusion that the combined teachings of Fitts and Inoue fail to establish a
prima facie case of obviousness with regard to the subject matter recited in independent
claims 1 and 10. We therefore will not sustain the rejection of these claims or, it follows, of
claims 2-9 and 11-15, which depend therefrom.
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