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 7Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007