Appeal No. 1997-0896
Application 08/141,610
suggested by the applied references, we will not sustain the
35 U.S.C. § 103 rejections against independent claims 1, 17,
38 and 46. Likewise, we will not sustain the 35 U.S.C. § 103
rejections against dependent claims 2 through 11, 13 through
16, 18 through 27, 29 through 32, 37, 40 through 45 and 48
through 52, since they contain the same unmet limitation.
As to the remaining claims, 33 through 36, we agree with
the Examiner. As stated in the Answer at page 8,
The rejection is based on the position
that it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art that
“decompression” is the necessary and proper
complement to “compression,” ....
Appellant argues that “these decompression claims are not
simply reverse compression claims.” (Brief-page 15.) However,
Appellant’s Specification describes decompression as the
“converse” of compression. Note page 9, lines 5-8 and page
23, lines 1-13. We see no distinction between the compression
claims and decompression being the reverse thereof. This,
when considered with the fact that these decompression claims
do not recite Appellant’s variation on run length encoding
(i.e., further codes to represent a maximum length string),
leads us to find that these claims recite nothing more than
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