Appeal No. 1997-0650
Application 08/171,136
Golin 5,265,180 Nov. 23,
1993
Claims 1 through 27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Golin in
view of Avis.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellant and the
examiner, reference is made to the brief and answer for the
respective details thereof.
OPINION
Generally for the reasons set forth by appellant at pages
9 through 21 of the brief, we reverse the outstanding
rejection of claims 1 through 27 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
The examiner attempts to correlate the various claimed
features in the statement of the rejection to certain figures
and columnar locations in Golin and Avis. On the one hand,
the examiner asserts that Golin teaches the instantaneous
match signal (IM) of the claims on appeal as well as the
cumulative match signal (CM), but recognizes at page 5 of the
answer that there is no specific teaching of these signals,
asserting at page 6 that the artisan would have recognized the
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