Appeal No. 2000-0965
Application No. 08/927,465
instrument system of Fournier in some vague manner without
specifically describing how the teachings would be combined,
nor how any such combination would satisfy the requirements of
appealed claim 1. This does not persuade us that one of
ordinary skill in the art having the references before her or
him, and using her or his own knowledge of the art, would have
been put in possession of the claimed subject matter. The
mere fact that the prior art may be modified in the manner
suggested by the Examiner does not make the modification
obvious unless the prior art suggested the desirability of the
modification. In re Fritch, 972 F.2d 1260, 1266 n.14, 23
USPQ2d 1780, 1783-84 n.14 (Fed. Cir. 1992).
A review of the Examiner’s analysis (Answer, page 4)
reveals an implied suggestion of the obviousness to the
skilled artisan of moving the CPU from the instrument console
14 in Fournier to the person of the technician 21 in view of
the advantages associated with the wearability of modular
computer components suggested by Janik. We agree with
Appellants (Brief, page 11), however, that, even if this
modification of Fournier were made, the resultant combination
would not satisfy the claimed requirements. Although the
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