Ex parte Levengood

A bare assertion that modifying the prior art would have been well within ordinary skill, because each aspect of the invention was individually known, cannot establish prima facie obviousness without an objective reason to combine the teachings; obviousness rejections require logic and sound scientific reasoning, not conclusory statements.

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