Appeal No. 96-1190
Application 07/950,177
document with stored patterns of electrical signals forming
lexicons of images of characters, "assigning a value to
signals representing each numeral found," and "using the
signals representing the images of the numerals to perform
calculations." Claim 25 calls for identifying numerals by
comparing signals representative of images of characters from
a source document with stored patterns of signals forming
lexicons of images of characters and "displaying only the
characters representing numerals for human review and storing
signals representative of other characters without human
review." Neither claim 22 nor claim 25 recite identifying
ambiguous characters.
Appellant argues that "there is no cogent or
comprehensible rejection of claims 22-26 and there is no
disclosure in Katsuyama et al which can be said to provide any
reasonable basis for a rejection of those claims under
§ 102(e) or any other section of the statute" (Br9). The
examiner disagrees, stating that claims 22 and 25 are similar
in content to claim 17 and that claims 22 and 25 were directly
addressed in the Final Rejection (EA9). The examiner equates
"using signals to perform calculations" with "reiteration of
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