Ex parte WINDEL et al. - Page 13




          Appeal No. 1999-1565                                                        
          Application No. 08/494,227                                                  

          this evidence in order to establish a prima facie case.  In re              
          Piasecki, 745 F.2d 1468, 1471-72, 223 USPQ 785, 787-88 (Fed.                
          Cir. 1984); In re Knapp-Monarch Co., 296 F.2d 230, 232, 132                 
          USPQ 6, 8 (CCPA 1961); In re Cofer, 354 F.2d 664, 668, 148                  
          USPQ 268, 271-72 (CCPA 1966).  Furthermore, our reviewing                   
          court states in In re Piasecki, 745 F.2d at 1471-72, 223 USPQ               
          785 at 787-88 (Fed. Cir. 1984) the following:                               
               The Supreme Court in Graham v. John Deere Co., 383                     
               U.S. 1 (1966), focused on the procedural and                           
               evidentiary processes in reaching a conclusion under                   
               Section 103.  As adapted to ex parte procedure,                        
               Graham is interpreted as continuing to place the                       
               "burden of proof on the Patent Office which requires                   
               it to produce the factual basis for its rejection of                   
               an application under section 102 and 103".  Citing                     
               In re Warner, 379 F.2d 1011, 1020, 154 USPQ 173, 177                   
               (CCPA 1967).                                                           
               Therefore, we will not sustain the rejection of claims 1,              
          3, 4, 6-10, 12 and 13 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being                        
          unpatentable over Kattner when taken with Suzuki.                           
               In addition, we will not sustain the rejection of claims               
          2, 5, 11 and 14 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable                 
          over Kattner when taken with Suzuki and Pond, as Pond does not              
          provide the adapter plate claim limitations found absent in                 
          the above analysis of the parent claims, and the Examiner has               

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