Appeal No. 96-3260 Page 9
Application No. 08/134,214
not find an explicit teaching by Baumgarten of replacing a
carriage return with a space, we find a strong suggestion
thereof by Baumgarten’s teaching that two spaces may be
replaced by a single space and that two hard returns may be
replaced with one hard return. In our view, this teaching
clearly would have led the artisan to conclude that a hard
return may also be replaced with a space for further
compression of the text area. Such a replacement, as concluded
by the examiner, would have resulted in the “forming said
objects into a string in a round-up paragraph by appending
successive objects in said round-up paragraph to form said
string in conjunction with said replacing step which forms said
string without said object breaks,” as claimed.
Accordingly, we will also sustain the rejection of claims
17 and 18 under 35 U.S.C. 103.
Since appellants do not argue the merits of claims 14
through 16, 19, 20 and 24 through 26 separately from the other
claims, they will fall with claim 9.
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