Appeal No. 1997-0200
Application No. 08/202,860
weighting the characteristics exhibited by detected errors.
In the Examiner’s line of reasoning (Answer, page 6), the
skilled artisan would have found it obvious to utilize such a
statistical ranking feature in Lyke in order to reduce reentry
time by presenting suspect items to an operator in the order
of their likelihood as the error source.
We note that, aside from a broad general assertion at
page 20 of the Brief that lacks factual support, Appellants
have not attacked the combinability of Lyke and Elischer.
Rather, Appellants’ detailed arguments in response (Brief,
pages 12-14) center on the alleged deficiency of Elischer in
disclosing the associating of weights with a plurality of
characteristics with the plurality of characteristics being of
different types. We refer to the language of claim 28, the
relevant portion of which recites:
associating a different one of a plurality
of weights with each of a plurality of
different characteristics, wherein each of
said plurality of different characteristics
indicates a different type of error...
In addressing this limitation, the Examiner (Answer, page 5)
points to the description at column 5 of the transaction
balancing system of Elischer which describes the examination
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