Appeal No. 97-0642
Application 08/242,318
different alphabets." Horodeck expressly discloses conversion
of words in different symbologies.
Appellant has failed to rebut the prima facie case of
obviousness with respect to claim 24. The rejection of
claims 24-26 is sustained.
Claim 27
Claim 27 is similar to claim 7. Horodeck discloses that
a list of numbered choices is displayed in the assembly
portion of the cathode ray tube when the kana/kanji conversion
results in ambiguities (e.g., col. 15 under heading "MANUAL
RESOLUTION OF AMBIGUITIES"). This list is broadly considered
a "ranking" of the candidate text strings because claim 27
does not define what criteria are used to place the text
strings in any sort of order. The combination of Sklarew and
Horodeck establishes a prima facie case of obviousness.
Appellant relies on the arguments made with respect to
claim 7. Appellant argues that "[n]one of these patents [to
Sklarew, Kato, or Horodeck] describes identifying multiple
potential text conversion results and then ranking them"
(Br24). We disagree because of the teaching in Horodeck,
which has not been addressed by Appellant.
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