Appeal No. 2000-0112 Page 14
Application No. 08/935,005
In alternate lines of the boustrophedon text, noted in
the article by Diamond, the characters begin at the right and
progress from right to left across the page. We see no 4
teaching or motivation in the Diamond article 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. As we concluded in our
analysis of the examiner’s rejection using Huang, it is our
view that the teachings of the Diamond article, also relied
upon by the examiner as suggesting the subject matter of
claims 5 and 8, are only sufficient when modified with
impermissible hindsight derived from appellant’s own
teachings.
4In his brief (pp. 10-13 and appendix 6) appellant has
supplied evidence that in boustrophedon writing where
alternate lines of text progress from left to right and then
right to left, etc., the characters in the lines of text
reading from right to left face from right to left, or
opposite to those characters in the lines of text reading left
to right.
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