Appeal No. 1997-0810
Application No. 08/512,072
and highlighting (lines 11 and 12). For “simultaneously”
highlighting, the Examiner adds Wroblewski to the combination.
(Answer-pages 4-6.)
Appellant agrees with the Examiner with respect to
the step of extracting and displaying being disclosed in the
APA, but takes issue with the determining step. (Brief-page
4.)
Appellant states:
Certainly for a manual operation an operator, if he
takes the time to identify which bit number is being
marked by counting the bits, can then refer to a
printout of the format and determine what bits make
up the segment of which the marked bit is a part.
But the invention is not concerned with a manual
operation, as is readily apparent from the
specification. Therefore Applicant submits that the
APA does not teach or suggest the determining step
as recited in claim 1. (Brief-page 4.) (Emphasis
added.)
This argument fails at the outset because Appellant
admits the APA teaches “determining” but relies on the
specification to avoid a “manual determination”. Since the
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