Appeal No. 2001-0090 Page 10
Application No. 08/893,890
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 all the limitations of claim 1
are not taught or suggested by the applied prior art, we will
not sustain the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claim 1.
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