Appeal No. 95-4183
Application 07/945,714
OPINION
We will not sustain the rejection of claim 14 under 35
U.S.C. 103 in view of Kitano because the examiner has failed to
establish a prima facie case of obviousness with regard to the
claimed subject matter.
Claim 14 calls for, inter alia,
a serial converter circuit responsive
to a fringe request signal from a
microcomputer to generate a bit pattern
of fringe for said bit pattern of said
character pattern and output signals for
said fringe bit pattern and said bit
pattern of said character pattern dot by
dot every clock having a period
corresponding to a horizontal scan
period of respective display dots on the
display screen...
The examiner contends [page 2 of the second
supplemental answer] that "the claimed fringe bit pattern or bit
pattern of spaces reads on the generated spaces of Kitano..."
While the examiner has previously explained why he regards the
previously claimed bit pattern of spaces as being obvious over
patentability of claim 14 in view of Kitano is basically treated in
the second supplemental answer (Paper No. 21, August 6, 1996) and
the supplemental reply brief (Paper No. 22, October 7, 1996). The
issue was narrowed down to the patentability of claim 14, solely,
with the cancellation of claims 8 through 10, 12 and 13 by the
amendment of March 7, 1995 (Paper No. 19).
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