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          Appeal No. 2000-1238                                                        
          Application 08/566,638                                                      

          proposed by the examiner or any other manner.  See In re Kotzab,            
          217 F.3d 1365, 1370, 55 USPQ2d 1313, 1316 (Fed. Cir. 2000) ("to             
          establish obviousness based on a combination of the elements                
          disclosed in the prior art, there must be some motivation,                  
          suggestion or teaching of the desirability of making the specific           
          combination that was made by the applicant.  See In re Dance,               
          160 F.3d 1339, 1343, 48 USPQ2d 1635, 1637 (Fed. Cir. 1998).").              




























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