Ex Parte ROESNER et al - Page 6

             Appeal No. 2003-1412                                                                                      
             Application 10/017,543                                                                                    

             169 USPQ 423, 426 ([CCPA] 1971); In re Crockett, . . . 279 F.2d 274, 276-77, 126 USPQ 186,                
             188 ([CCPA] 1960). As this court explained in Crockett, the idea of combining them flows                  
             logically from their having been individually taught in the prior art.”); In re Siebentritt, 372 F.2d     
             566, 567-68, 152 USPQ 618, 619 (CCPA 1967) (express suggestion to interchange methods                     
             which achieve the same or similar results is not necessary to establish obviousness).                     
                                                       Reversed                                                        








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