Appeal No. 2000-0112 Page 12
Application No. 08/935,005
page. We see no teaching or motivation in the disclosure of3
Huang that would have suggested to one of ordinary skill in
the art at the time the invention was made to re-position the
characters in the lines of text that read from right to left,
such that individual words would read from left to right. In
our view, modification of the teachings of Huang in the manner
urged by the examiner so as to arrive at the subject matter of
claims 5 and 8 on appeal is based entirely on an impermissible
hindsight reconstruction derived from appellant’s own
teachings.
Turning to the Diamond article (p. 84, column 1), it
states:
Some writing, like that of the early Greeks, had
alternate lines of left to right and right to left. (This
form of writing is called boustrophedon, from the Greek
words bous[ox] and strophe[turning], because it
resembles the path of an ox as it plows successive
furrows, turning at the end of each to start the next.)
3See also, the attached literal translation of Example 1.
We note that in alternate lines of text (i.e., lines 2, 4 and
6) not only do lines of text progress from right to left, but
the letters in the individual words are arranged from right to
left, as well.
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