Appeal No. 2005-2522 Page 11
Application No. 09/841,453
of ordinary skill in the art would have been led to employ both
monomers and polymers as hydrophobic property imparting modifying
agents in Jin. In this regard, one of ordinary skill in the art
would have reasonably expected that combining such known
modifiers that impart hydrophobic properties would have been
expected to reduce the hydrophilic (moisture adsorption)
properties of the dielectric of Jin via the additive effects of
each. See In re Kerkhoven, 626 F.2d 846, 850, 205 USPQ 1069,
1072 (CCPA 1980).
Appellants contend that Burns represents non-analogous art
because Burns does not disclose modifying a dielectric film on a
substrate. We disagree.
The test of whether a reference is from an analogous art is
first, whether it is within the field of the inventor's endeavor,
and second, if it is not, whether it is reasonably pertinent to
the particular problem with which the inventor was involved. See
In re Wood, 599 F.2d 1032, 1036, 202 USPQ 171, 174 (CCPA 1979).
A reference is reasonably pertinent if, even though it may be in
a different field of endeavor, it is one which because of the
matter with which it deals, logically would have commended itself
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