Appeal No. 2006-0172
Application No. 10/460,478
appellant's own disclosure. The use of such hindsight knowledge to support an
obviousness rejection under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103, is of course, impermissible, See, for example, W.L Gore and Assoc., Inc. V.
Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1553, 220 USPQ 303, 312-13 (Fed. Cir. 1983). cert.
denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).
For the foregoing reasons, it is my view that the examiner's rejection of claims 1
through 8, 13 and 14 should not be sustained.
)BOARD OF PATENT
MURRIEL E. CRAWFORD ) APPEALS
Administrative Patent Judge ) AND
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