Appeal No. 95-4183
Application 07/945,714
We find nothing in Kitano related to such a fringe and
it is unclear to us how or why the examiner equates a fringe bit
pattern with a bit pattern of spaces and how or why such a fringe
bit pattern "reads on the generated spaces of Kitano," as
contended by the examiner. Looking at the instant claim
language, since there is no fringe, as disclosed and claimed by
appellant, in Kitano, it is difficult to perceive how Kitano can
be said to disclose or suggest a serial converter circuit
"responsive to a fringe request signal from a microcomputer to
generate a bit pattern of fringe..."
We note, in passing, that the background section of the
instant specification, at pages 2-4, appears to indicate that the
generation of fringe patterns around characters in a video
display device was known and even that the fringe pattern was
generated as a bit pattern by a serial conversion circuit on the
basis of adjacent dot values [see page 3 of the specification].
However, this disclosure forms no part of the basis for the
examiner's rejection and we offer no opinion as to whether such
disclosure could have been properly combinable with Kitano to
suggest the instant claimed subject matter. We make the
observation merely to indicate that there are prior art teachings
of fringe generation and the examiner may wish to consider this
-6-
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007