Appeal No. 1997-1304
Application 08/084,345
to the claimed invention of representative claim 1, for
example, on appeal.
For appellant's part, we generally agree with the
appellant's characterization of this reference to Yan in the
principal brief on appeal where appellant makes reference at
page 11 of this brief to the earlier noted conflicting
positions of the examiner as to the feature of generating
linear combinations of placement vectors.
We conclude the examiner has not set forth a prima facie
case of obviousness of the claimed invention in light of the
collective teachings of the two references relied upon because
of the above noted weaknesses in the examiner's position as to
Yan and the fact that the examiner does not attempt to
correlate the individual features of representative
independent claim 1 on appeal, for example, to the teachings
and showings in Weyl. There is no explicit teaching in this
reference of placement vectors per se, let alone a linear
combination of them in the manner claimed. There is, however,
in Weyl an apparent historical development of a mathematical
basis of vector algebra as applied to images that are
effectively duplicated or translated from one position to
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