Appeal No. 96-1455
Application No. 08/218,279
numeric, bar code symbols used in the identification of stored
data. Hicks explicitly teaches the use of alphabetic and
numeric symbols to indicate data stored on or associated with
the print image for the improved perception by the human
viewer. We agree with the Examiner that the person of
ordinary skill in the art of making image prints at the time
the invention was made would have been motivated to
incorporate the designated aspect ratio visibly stored on the
print image of Yoshiwaka in any other language or symbols
which would have been useful to either the machine or the
human at the time the invention was made. (See final at page
3, lines 16-20.) We hold that the function and information
content relating to the image print would have been similarly
conveyed to either machine or human as long as the language or
abbreviation were known.
Appellants argue on page 5 of the brief that the claims
must be considered as a whole and consider the claims
limitations directed to the printed matter in claim 1. We
agree with appellants as to the proper manner of interpreting
the claim, as a whole, but disagree with the application of
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