Appeal No. 1999-2808
Application 08/772,351
Since no prima facie case of obviousness has been
established, we need not address the experimental results.
See In re Piasecki, 745 F.2d 1468, 1472, 223 USPQ 785, 788
(Fed. Cir. 1984); In re Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1052, 189
USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976).
DECISION
The rejection of claims 2-22, 25-28 and 30-33 under 35
U.S.C. § 103 over Penneck taken with Ackerman, Rhodes, Wypych,
Minagawa and Vijlbrief, is reversed.
REVERSED
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