Appeal No. 95-3912
Application 08/087,247
turn control individual portions of a photocopying machine.
This is a more distributed processing-type architectural
approach. In this respect, Federico is more like appellants’
broad concept of the disclosure set forth in Fig. 2 of the
drawings. The examiner offers us no persuasive line of
reasoning as to why the artisan would have found it obvious to
combine the teachings into a single system of the two
references relied upon.
Assuming for the sake of argument, however, that it would
have been obvious for the artisan for some reason to have
combined the teachings of Fisk and Federico, we are not
convinced that the portions relied upon of the two references
the examiner makes reference to would have made obvious the
subject matter of at least the independent claims 1, 7, 14 and
20 on appeal. The examiner’s approach is to indicate that
certain portions of representative claim 1, for example, are
found in Fisk and that certain portions of this claim are
found in Federico. The examiner’s approach is to identify
only concepts which appear to be present to the examiner in
each of the respective references that are set forth in the
claims in a rather detailed format such as the details of the
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