Appeal No. 1997-3416 Page 6
Application No. 08/339,340
active agent of the type as herein called for. The examiner
must identify a particularized suggestion, reason or
motivation to combine references or make the proposed
modification in a manner so as to arrive at the claimed
invention.
In this regard, "evidence of a suggestion, teaching, or
motivation to modify a reference may flow from the prior art
references themselves, the knowledge of one of ordinary skill
in the art, or, in some cases, from the nature of the problem
to be
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