Ex parte LEVINE et al. - Page 3




          Appeal No. 1995-4366                                       Page 3           
          Application No. 08/150,744                                                  


                    providing a data processor coupled through a                      
               local facsimile device to a telephone communications                   
               line;                                                                  
                    at a location remote from said data processor,                    
               transmitting a facsimile image containing graphical                    
               or textual images to said data processor through a                     
               remote facsimile device;                                               
                    said data processor recognizing certain of said                   
               graphical or textual images and retrieving and                         
               manipulating specific data in response to said                         
               graphical or textual images.                                           

               The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:               
          Adachi                   4,589,111                May  13,                  
          1986                                                                        
          Lin                      4,991,200                Feb.  5,                  
          1991                                                                        
          (filed Sep. 29,                                                             
          1987)                                                                       
          Sakakibara et al.        5,022,072                Jun.  4,                  
          1991                                                                        
          (Sakakibara)                              (filed Jul.  3,                   
          1986)                                                                       
          Lesnick et al.        0 251 237 A3                Jan.  7,                  
          1988                                                                        
          (Lesnick)                                                                   
          (European Patent Application).                                              


               Claim 177 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as                  
          anticipated by Lin.  Claims 169-175, 184, and 185 stand                     
          rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Lin in view of               
          Adachi “and/or,” (Examiner’s Answer at 4), Lesnick.  Claims                 








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