Appeal No. 2000-0112 Page 11
Application No. 08/935,005
claim 8), and the claimed step of arranging all letters in
each word from left to right in all lines of text (appellant’s
claim 5), and
that the characters are letters and the steps of
arranging the letters in each word from left to right
would have been an obvious matter of design choice once the
use of characters were known as in the Chinese patent
since Applicant has not disclosed that using letters
as characters and the steps of arranging the characters
in each word from left to right solves any stated problem and
the invention of the Chinese patent would be capable of
performing the same as well.
Appellant argues (brief, pp. 6-10 and reply brief, pp. 1-
2) that to arrange the letters in each word from left to right
in all lines of text, where alternate lines of text are
oppositely oriented, is not an obvious matter of design choice
in the use of Chinese characters as in Huang. Appellant
further points out (brief, p. 9) that “[t]he examiner has not
cited any evidence to support this proposition.” We agree.
In alternate lines of text (i.e., Example 1, lines 2, 4
and 6) in the invention of Huang, the Chinese characters begin
at the right, and progress from right to left across the
Page: Previous 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007