Appeal No. 97-2541
Application 08/369,022
any locally generated text equivalent to an audio speech
input, Morse would not have reasonably suggested sending the
local text equivalent to other workstations. In Morse, inputs
are stored in a central repository called a file and a
conference participant accesses the file at its own
convenience. See Morse at page 178, column 1, paragraphs 2
and 4. Morse would not have reasonably suggested either (1)
receiving both speech input and a corresponding local text
equivalent of that speech from another workstation, as is
required by claims 1 and 11, or (2) transmitting the local
text equivalent of a local speech input to other workstations,
as is required by claims 3 and 14. The examiner has
identified no reasonable suggestion from Morse that the dialog
information generated from each station should contain both
audio speech and corresponding locally generated equivalent
text.
As applied by the examiner, Shelley does not make up for
the deficiencies of Pate and Morse. Accordingly, for the
foregoing reasons, we do not sustain the rejection of claims
1-6 and 10-16 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Pate and Morse,
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