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            Appeal No. 2001-1680                                                                       
            Application 08/890,471                                                                     

            1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984) (“To imbue one of                                 
            ordinary skill in the art with knowledge of the invention in                               
            suit, when no prior art reference or references of record                                  
            convey or suggest that knowledge, is to fall victim to the                                 
            insidious effect of a hindsight syndrome wherein that which                                
            only the inventor taught is used against its teacher.”)                                    


                                             REVERSED                                                  



                              WILLIAM F. SMITH                    )                                    
                              Administrative Patent Judge         )                                    
                                                                  )                                    
                                                                  )                                    
                                                                  ) BOARD OF PATENT                    
                              PAUL LIEBERMAN                      )                                    
                              Administrative Patent Judge         )   APPEALS AND                      
                                                                  )                                    
                                                                  )  INTERFERENCES                     
                                                                  )                                    
                              LINDA R. POTEATE                    )                                    
                              Administrative Patent Judge         )                                    


            LRP:pgg                                                                                    

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