Appeal No. 2006-0132
Application No. 09/946,627
DISCUSSION OF FACTS AND CONCLUSIONS
We have carefully reviewed the claims, specification and
prior art, including all of the arguments advanced by both the
examiner and the appellants in support of their respective
positions. This review has led us to conclude that the
examiner’s section 103(a) rejections are well founded.
Accordingly, we affirm the examiner’s decision rejecting the
claims on appeal under section 103(a) for essentially the
findings and conclusions set forth in the Answer and the
Supplemental Answer. We add the following primarily for emphasis
and completeness.3
To establish a prima facie case of obviousness under section
103, there must be some teaching, suggestion and/or motivation in
the applied prior art taken as a whole and/or knowledge generally
available to a person having ordinary skill in the art, which
would have led that person to the claimed invention, without any
3 For purposes of this appeal, we limit our discussion to claims 1, 3, 7, 11,
13, 18, 22, 23, 27 and 28 consistent with 37 CFR § 41.37(c)(1)(vii)(2004).
The appellants' arguments in the Brief are limited to the groups of claims
represented by the above-identified claims.
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