Ex parte STEARNS et al. - Page 9




          Appeal No. 1996-2581                                                        
          Application No. 08/288,139                                                  


          translated into semantic commands as required by each of                    
          Appellants’ independent claims on appeal.  In order for us to               
          sustain the Examiner’s rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103, we                  
          would need to resort to speculation or unfounded assumptions                
          or rationales to supply deficiencies in the factual basis of                
          the rejection before us.  In re Warner, 379 F.2d 1011, 1017,                
          154 USPQ 173, 178 (CCPA 1967), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 1057                  
          (1968), reh’g denied, 390 U.S. 1000 (1968).                                 























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