Appeal No. 2000-0049
Application 08/826,209
The record indicates that the motivation relied upon by
the examiner for combining the references so as to arrive at
the claimed invention comes from the description of the
appellant’s invention in the specification rather than coming
from the applied prior art and that, therefore, the examiner
used impermissible hindsight when rejecting the claims. See
W.L. Gore & Associates v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1553,
220 USPQ 303, 312-13 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S.
851 (1984); In re Rothermel, 276 F.2d 393, 396, 125 USPQ 328,
331 (CCPA 1960).
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