Appeal No. 96-3561
Application No. 08/045,241
We also will sustain the rejection of claim 35 under 35
U.S.C. 103 since the telephone environment and icons of Hayden
are so closely related to a facsimile machine, we find that
the skilled artisan would have found it obvious to apply
Hayden’s teachings to facsimile equipment. Moreover,
appellants do not present a separate argument regarding claim
35.
With regard to the rejections of independent claims 6, 7,
11, 15 and 17 under 35 U.S.C. 103 over Hayden, we will not
sustain these rejections because, in our view, each of these
claims contain specific limitations which are not found to be
taught or suggested by Hayden.
With regard to claim 6, the graphic data is memorized in
an external character memory region which is independent of a
character code memory region of the same memory means. While
it may have been obvious to provide for an external memory, we
find that there would need to be something more to suggest
that the graphic data is memorized in an external character
memory region which is independent of a character code memory
region of the memory means. A specific relationship is
recited here, viz., that the graphic data memorized in an
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