Appeal No. 1998-0660
Application No. 08/584,501
1239 (Fed. Cir. 1995) (citing W. L. Gore & Assocs., Inc. v.
Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1548, 220 USPQ 303, 309 (Fed.
Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984)).
With respect to claim 1, the Examiner reasons that APA
teaches the claimed system with “selectivity” in performing
these operations being inherent (answer-page 3). The Examiner
explains that the inherent “selectivity” exists inasmuch as
the customer selects whether or not to enter a ride equipped
with the described photographing system; or alternatively, to
provide the customer with the option of whether or not to be
photographed in order to avoid objections by customers who
choose not to be photographed would be an expedient obvious to
one of ordinary skill in the art (answer-page 4).
The Examiner acknowledges that APA does not provide a
networking element, in which several capture stations feed
images to one output station and hardware supporting this
operation. The Examiner cites Maeda for this teaching in that
Maeda collects and stores digital images using a network
connecting digital image sources to a central controller and
output device (answer-pages 3 and 4).
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