Appeal No. 1997-0411 Page 4
Application No. 08/441,658
Broderbund software, Print Shop Reference Manual (Print Shop),
1984.
Claims 12, 14, 15, 18, 21, and 34 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Print Shop in view of Eight-in
One, Mano, and Weiner. Rather than repeat the arguments of
the appellants or examiner in toto, we refer the reader to the
briefs and answer for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we considered
the subject matter on appeal and the rejections and evidence
advanced by the examiner. Furthermore, we duly considered the
arguments of the appellants and examiner. After considering
the totality of the record, we are persuaded that the examiner
erred in rejecting claims 12, 14, 15, 18, 21, and 34.
Accordingly, we reverse. The appellants make two arguments
regarding the obviousness of claims 12, 14, 15, 18, 21, and
34. We address these seriatim.
First, the appellants argue, “since the ‘data label
direction’ menu refers to the labeling of data in a graph ...,
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