Appeal No. 2000-0112 Page 13
Application No. 08/935,005
The examiner determined (final rejection, p. 5) that
Diamond, like Huang, lacks the claimed limitation that all
letters in each word are arranged from left to right in both
lines of text (appellant’s 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
[t]hat the characters are letters and the steps of
arranging the characters in each word from left to right
and orientating[sic] the characters the same way in all
lines of text would have been an obvious matter of design
choice once the use of characters were known as in the
Discover article[Diamond] since Applicant has not
disclosed that using letters as characters and the steps
of arranging the characters in each word from left to right
and orientating[sic] the characters the same
way in all lines of text solves any stated problem and the
invention of the Discover article[Diamond] would be capable
of performing the same as well.
Appellant argues (brief pp. 10-11) that to arrange the
letters in each word from left to right in all lines of text,
where alternate lines are oppositely oriented, is not an
obvious matter of design choice of the use of characters in
the boustrophedon style text noted in Diamond. Again, we
agree.
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