Ex parte ASTLE et al. - Page 7




          Appeal No. 1998-0622                                                        
          Application No. 08/360,972                                                  

          Labs., 952 F.2d 388, 391, 21 USPQ2d 1281, 1285 (Fed. Cir.                   
          1991) ("It is not the function of this court to examine the                 
          claims in greater detail than argued by an appellant, looking               
          for nonobviousness distinctions over the prior art."); In re                
          Wiechert, 370 F.2d 927, 936, 152 USPQ 247, 254 (CCPA                        
          1967)("This court has uniformly followed the sound rule that                
          an issue raised below which is not argued in that court, even               
          of it has been properly brought here by reason of appeal is                 
          regarded as abandoned and will not be considered. It is our                 
          function as a court to decide disputed issues, not to create                
          them.”).                                                                    
               With the above guidelines we proceed with the analysis of              
          the three combinations of the references below.                             
          Buhrke and Caci                                                             
               The examiner rejects claims 3 to 21, 24 to 36, and 44                  
          under this combination of references at pages 4 to 6 of the                 
          examiner’s                                                                  




          answer.  After discussing in detail the references                          
          individually, the examiner concludes, id. at page 6, that                   

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