Appeal No. 1997-1240
Application 07/881,753
Upon our review of Katsumata and Honjo, we fail
to find any teaching or suggestion of providing a high
definition processing means for applying a scanning line
conversion processing to convert the double rate signal into a
signal having a same format as that of the high definition
television signal and a same field frequency as that of the
standard television signal as required by Appellants' claims.
The Federal Circuit states that "[t]he mere fact
that the prior art may be modified in the manner suggested by
the Examiner does not make the modification obvious unless the
prior art suggested the desirability of the modification." In
re
Fritch, 972 F.2d 1260, 1266 n.14, 23 USPQ2d 1780, 1783-84 n.14
(Fed. Cir. 1992), citing In re Gordon, 733 F.2d 900, 902, 221
USPQ 1125, 1127 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
We have not sustained the rejection of claims 1
through 16, 18, 20 and 22 under 35 U.S.C. § 103. Accordingly,
the Examiner's decision is reversed.
REVERSED
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