Ex parte SUZUKI - Page 5




          Appeal No. 1997-1766                                                        
          Application No. 08/245,033                                                  


          ordinary skill in the art would have been led to the claimed                
          invention by the express teachings or suggestions found in the              
          prior art, or by implications contained in such teachings or                
          suggestions.  In re Sernaker, 702 F.2d 989, 995, 217 USPQ 1, 6              
          (Fed. Cir. 1983).  "Additionally, when determining                          
          obviousness, the claimed invention should be considered as a                
          whole; there is no legally recognizable 'heart' of the                      
          invention."  Para-Ordnance Mfg. v. SGS Importers Int'l, Inc.,               
          73 F.3d 1085, 1087, 37 USPQ2d 1237, 1239 (Fed. Cir. 1995),                  
          cert. denied, 519 U.S. 822 (1996)                                           
          citing W. L. Gore & Assoc., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d                 
          1540, 1548, 220 USPQ 303, 309 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied,               
          469 U.S. 851 (1984).                                                        
               In Appellant's appeal brief, reply brief and second reply              
          brief, Appellant argues that it would not have been obvious to              
          those skilled in the art to combine the image stabilization                 
          teachings of the secondary references with the five-unit                    
          nonstabilizing zoom lenses of Ogawa or Ishii.  Appellant                    
          argues that the Examiner continues to ignore the complexity                 
          and unpredictability of zoom lens construction with image                   
          stabilization.  Appellant argues that designing a multi-                    

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