Appeal No. 2001-0352 Application 08/872,097 port including a pressure seal, situated to each cell has an injection and evacuation provide access to one of said reaction port, there is a plurality of injection and vessels, the plurality of injection ports evacuation ports. (column 5, lines 20-31, operable for the injection of liquids into “inlet conduit” . “static valve”, “outlet said reaction vessels; conduit”). a plurality of evacuation ports, each See above. evacuation port including a pressure seal, situated to provide access to one of said reaction vessels, the plurality of evacuation ports operable for the evacuation of fluids from said reaction vessels; injection and evacuation fittings formed to Injection and evacuation fittings 161 and matingly engage said respective injection 164 matingly engage the injection and and evacuation ports and to thereby evacuation ports. enable the delivery of fluids to the reaction vessels and the evacuation of fluids from said reaction vessels; and an actuator for controlling selectively Tray motor aligns cell with inlet and aligning the injection and evacuation ports evacuation ports (column 8, lines 3-32). of the plurality of reaction vessels and the injection and evacuation fittings, respectively. The above analysis is merely instructional and is not to be construed as the only way in which rejections can be explicated. To be fair to the Appellants and meet the Examiner’s burden to establish a proper prima facie case of obviousness under §103 or anticipation under §102, inter alia the rejections must be sufficiently clear and specific such that the record enables a proper review. Further, there must be some reason, suggestion, or motivation found in the prior art whereby a person of ordinary skill in the field of the invention would make the substitutions required. That knowledge cannot come from the applicants’ disclosure of the invention itself. Diversitech Corp v. Century Steps, Inc., 850 F.2d 675, 687-9, 7 8Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007