Appeal No. 1996-2046
Application 07/978,450
the art. Uniroyal, Inc. v. Rudkin-Wiley Corp., 837 F.2d 1044,
1051, 5 USPQ2d 1434, 1438 (Fed. Cir.), cert. denied, 488 U.S.
825 (1988); Ashland Oil, Inc. v. Delta Resins & Refractories,
Inc., 776 F.2d 281, 293, 227 USPQ 657, 664 (Fed. Cir. 1985),
cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1017 (1986); ACS Hosp. Sys., Inc. v.
Montefiore Hosp., 732 F.2d 1572, 1577,
221 USPQ 929, 933 (Fed. Cir. 1984). These showings by the
examiner are an essential part of complying with the burden of
presenting a prima facie case of obviousness. Note In re
Oetiker, 977 F.2d 1443, 1445, 24 USPQ2d 1443, 1444 (Fed. Cir.
1992).
Field teaches the manner in which the applications
MacWrite and MacPaint operate on the Macintosh computerTM TM TM
system. The examiner finds that Field essentially teaches all
of the limitations of independent claim 15 except for the pen
and tablet for inputting information and the means for
displaying descriptive images successively as a series of
moving images.
The examiner cites Saki as teaching that a pen and tablet for
inputting information was well known, and the examiner asserts
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