Appeal No. 96-1413
Application 08/134,798
compaction procedures as taught in this reference the Fig. 8
showing would appear to indicate that there is an overlapping
of some edges only, no overlapping of areas, the absence of
any overlap at all and in some cases a tangential or edge
abutment connection. The shape altered version of Fig. 8 in
Fig. 9 does not show any overlapping areas, shows tangential
or abutting connected areas as well as some areas that are not
connected at all. The final aspect ratio adjusted depiction
for this first embodiment in Shikata’s Fig. 11 appears to us
to show the contiguity or abutment between the edges of closed
drawing figures, the absence of some of them touching at all
and a possible overlapping of edges between items 2 and 4, for
example. Similar assessments can be made with respect to
Figs. 19, 20, 24 and even Shikata’s assessment of the prior
art at Fig. 41.
With respect to the Fig. 15B flowchart, the determination
of whether any overlap exists at block 2140 is explained at
col. 13, lines 40 through 59 such that a predetermined value
of the overlap may equal zero. In this case, all of the
respective closed drawing objects would have no overlap at all
in their final version and would therefore abut or be
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