Appeal No. 2002-0139 Page 6
Application No. 08/991,572
recognized that application of the starve feeding controller of
Wesley to the extrusion apparatus of Higuchi would have been
suggested by the disparate disclosures of those references and
would have met with a reasonable expectation of success in
addressing the significantly different problem discussed by
Higuchi.
On this record, the examiner has not proffered satisfactory
supporting evidence or a convincing rationale that specifically
addresses how the applied references would have taught or
suggested the herein claimed apparatus.
For the foregoing reasons, we find that the examiner has not
established a prima facie case of obviousness. Accordingly, we
will not sustain the § 103 rejection before us.
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