Appeal No. 2003-1051
Application No. 09/247,134
regard to Lech, the examiner applies this reference for scanning
a paper bill to enter specific data contained in the paper bill
into a database and to do so in response to whether a template
exists. In particular, the examiner cites the abstract and
column 5, line 58 to column 6, line 65, of Lech.
While it is true that Lech teaches the use of a scanner to
store information extracted from a hard-copy document, appellants
have not denied that it was known to extract specific information
from a paper document. The question is why the skilled artisan
would have been led from this teaching in Lech to extract
specific information from the paper mail/bills of Manduley,
rather than scan the entire document and send it as a graphic
file. We agree with the examiner that Lech also discloses a
template which can be stored for future use on another paper
document in the same format (column 6, lines 62-65). So Lech
suggests the use of a template for extracting information from
paper documents. But it still begs the question as to why the
skilled artisan would have been led by this teaching to modify
Manduley in order to extract specific information from the paper
document rather than scan the entire document and send as a
graphics file.
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