Ex Parte WOOD et al - Page 5



          Appeal No. 2004-0024                                                           
          Application No. 09/249,922                                    Page 5           

          available to one having ordinary skill in the art.  Uniroyal,                  
          Inc. v. Rudkin-Wiley Corp., 837 F.2d 1044, 1051, 5 USPQ2d 1434,                
          1438 (Fed. Cir. 1988); Ashland Oil, Inc. v. Delta Resins &                     
          Refractories, Inc., 776 F.2d 281, 293, 227 USPQ 657, 664 (Fed.                 
          Cir. 1985); ACS Hosp. Sys., Inc. v. Montefiore Hosp., 732 F.2d                 
          1572, 1577, 221 USPQ 929, 933 (Fed. Cir. 1984).  These showings                
          by the examiner are an essential part of complying with the                    
          burden of presenting a prima facie case of obviousness.  Note In               
          re Oetiker, 977 F.2d 1443, 1445, 24 USPQ2d 1443, 1444 (Fed. Cir.               
          1992).  If that burden is met, the burden then shifts to the                   
          applicant to overcome the prima facie case with argument and/or                
          evidence.  Obviousness is then determined on the basis of the                  
          evidence as a whole.  See id.; In re Hedges, 783 F.2d 1038, 1039,              
          228 USPQ 685, 686 (Fed. Cir. 1986); In re Piasecki, 745 F.2d                   
          1468, 1472, 223 USPQ 785, 788 (Fed. Cir. 1984); and In re                      
          Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1052, 189 USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976).                  
               The examiner's position (answer, page 3) is that Gaus                     
          discloses providing a collimated beam of high intensity white                  
          light, but that Gaus doesn't show or teach a microprocessor.  To               
          make up for this deficiency of Gaus, the examiner turns to                     
          Cockram for a teaching of a microprocessor for monitoring an arc               
          lamp.  The examiner asserts (id.) that it would have been obvious              





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