Appeal No. 1999-1930
Application 08/907,859
Assocs., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc. 721 F.2d 1540, 1551-53, 220 USPQ 303, 311-13. In
addition, our reviewing court requires the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to make
specific findings on a suggestion to combine prior art references. In re Dembiczak, 175
F.3d 994, 1000-01, 50 USPQ2d 1614, 1617-19 (Fed. Cir. 1999).
We find that the record provides no reason why one of ordinary skill in the art would
have wanted to make use of a flashlight which is illuminated during a power outage in a
system which is directed to charging of a stand alone battery as well as a battery in a
portable unit, particularly when the stand alone battery is used to power the base unit
associated with the portable unit. The motivation provided by the Examiner fails to
address why the skilled artisan would wish to modify the system of Dormer to change the
system associated with rechargeable batteries from one having a base and portable units,
both of which require a power source, to a system in which the flashlight is the sole element
requiring power.
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