Appeal No. 2002-0587 Page 10
Application No. 08/922,300
with a power interruption delay function in which a power
interruption delay charging circuit is provided to prevent a
horizontal output transistor from being damaged, we observe that
appellant's specification discloses (page 4) that "[i]f the
horizontal output circuit is damaged, no horizontal deflection is
performed on the screen of the display device, thereby causing a
single line to be vertically drawn on the center of the screen.
As a result, the user cannot recognize the information displayed
on the screen.” In Martin, the horizontal deflection control
circuit provides protection to the screen (col. 3, line 56),
which is not the same as the user not being able to recognize the
information on the screen. However, as long as some motivation
or suggestion to combine the references is provided by the prior
art taken as a whole, the law does not require that the
references be combined for the reasons contemplated by the
inventor. See In re Dillon, 919 F.2d 688, 693, 16 USPQ2d 1897,
1901 (Fed. Cir. 1990)(en banc), cert. denied, 500 U.S. 904 (1991)
and In re Beattie, 974 F.2d 1309, 1312, 24 USPQ2d 1040, 1042
(Fed. Cir. 1992).
Appellant opines (reply brief, page 9) that “[i]t might have
been obvious to replace Martin’s resistors 61 and 62 with a
diode-capacitor network similar to diode 44 and capacitor 45 in
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