Appeal No. 1997-0896
Application 08/141,610
through 27, 29 through 32, 37 and 45, dependent from claims 1
and 17, incomplete and will not sustain the 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, rejection of these claims. Furthermore,
since no reasons were proffered by the Examiner for the
incompleteness of independent claims 33 and 35 (and likewise
their respective dependent claims 34 and 36), we will not
sustain the 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, second paragraph, rejection of these claims.
With respect to the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claims
1,
3 through 11, 13 through 17, 19 through 27, 29 through 37 and
45 as being unpatentable over APA, the Examiner insists that
nothing more than run length encoding is claimed. Run length
encoding, the Examiner contends, is “extremely well known in
the art”, and Official Notice is taken of this (Answer-page
6).
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