Appeal No. 2005-0276
Application No. 09/736,941
Ultracapacitor 940 is used in this disclosure to
describe a class of capacitors that have several
designations in the art such as super capacitor,
electrochemical capacitor, and electrochemical double
layer capacitor. . . . It should also be appreciated
that the use of an ultracapacitor 940 provides an
energy storage for a wide range of appliances and/or
electronics, and the ultracapacitor 940 stores energy
with less weight less bulk than a mechanical spring
drive. In one embodiment, an ultracapacitor 940
provides several orders of magnitude higher storage
density than mechanical spring drives [column 11, line
29, through column 12, line 45].
The test for obviousness is not whether the features of a
secondary reference may be bodily incorporated into the structure
of the primary reference; nor is it that the claimed invention
must be expressly suggested in any one or all of the references.
Rather, the test is what the combined teachings of the references
would have suggested to those of ordinary skill in the art. In
re Keller, 642 F.2d 413, 425, 208 USPQ 871, 881 (CCPA 1981).
In the present case, Tiemann’s teachings that rechargeable
batteries and ultracapacitors/supercapacitors are art-recognized
alternatives for use as electrical energy storage devices in
wireless remote control devices and that the use of
ultracapacitors/supercapacitors in this environment affords
certain physical and operational advantages would have provided
the artisan with ample motivation or suggestion to substitute an
ultracapacitor or supercapacitor for the batteries in Croy’s
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