Appeal No. 2003-0256
Application No. 09/334,375
the appellants’ specification rather than coming from the applied
prior art. Hence, the record indicates that the examiner used
impermissible hindsight in rejecting claim 54. See W.L. Gore &
Associates v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1553, 220 USPQ 303,
312-13 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984); In re
Rothermel, 276 F.2d 393, 396, 125 USPQ 328, 331 (CCPA 1960).
Accordingly, we reverse the rejection of that claim.
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