Appeal No. 2000-1746
Application 08/791,098
one of ordinary skill in the art would have been motivated to
modify one in light of the other as urged by the examiner. In
that regard, we observe that the flower support of Krumholz is
formed of a single wire that provides a centrally located
straight stem portion (1) and a head portion formed by bending
the wire at a right angle to the stem and then forming the
wire into a circular head with various indentations (3, 4, 5)
having mouths opening outwardly. By contrast, Baldwin (Fig. 3)
discloses a wire flower support having a first circular wire
member and a second wire member having a portion which is bent
around the first to form petal-like closed loops (4) situated
in a vertical plane and end portions that are then twisted
together to form a stem (1) in the same plane as the petal-
like loops. The examiner has provided no reasonable
explanation as to why one of ordinary skill in the art would
have utilized teachings from the multi-piece, vertically
oriented wire plant support in Baldwin to modify the single
wire, horizontally oriented head arrangement of the flower
support in Krumholz.
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