Appeal No. 1997-0197
Application No. 08/195,676
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).
With respect to independent claims 1 and 7, the Examiner
proposes to modify the image storing system of Sakai by
relying on Sakata to supply the missing teaching of a display
which displays the selected resolution setting as well as the
number of images that can be further stored at the selected
resolution setting. In the Examiner’s view, the skilled
artisan would have found it obvious to utilize the display
features of Sakata in the system of Sakai to provide a user
with a fast and readily understandable indication of memory
capacity to enable evaluation of alternative operational
settings (Answer, page 6).
While Appellants have made several arguments in response,
the primary thrust of the arguments centers on the alleged
deficiency of either Sakai or Sakata in disclosing the claimed
feature of automatically changing a selected resolution
setting in response to an indication of insufficient memory
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