Appeal No. 1997-0200
Application No. 08/202,860
1443, 1444 (Fed. Cir. 1992); In re Hedges, 783 F.2d 1038,
1039, 228 USPQ 685, 686 (Fed. Cir. 1986); In re Piasecki, 745
F.2d 1468, 1472, 223 USPQ 785, 788 (Fed. Cir. 1984); and In re
Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1052, 189 USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976).
Only those arguments actually made by Appellants have been
considered in this decision. Arguments which Appellants could
have made but chose not to make in the Brief have not been
considered [see 37 CFR § 1.192(a)].
With respect to independent claim 28, the Examiner
proposes to modify the check image processing system of Lyke
which discloses an out-of-balance transaction feature which
detects and highlights to an operator suspect items having a
probable likelihood of being the cause of an out-of-balance
error. As recognized by the Examiner, Lyke discloses that
different characteristics are associated with different types
of errors, but lacks a teaching of statistically quantifying
or weighting the characteristics so as to indicate the
relative likelihood that a particular type of error is the
source of the out-of-balance event. To address this
deficiency, the Examiner turns to the transaction balancing
system of Elischer for a teaching of ranking suspect items by
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