Appeal No. 1997-1304
Application 08/084,345
Claims 1 through 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Yan in
view of Weyl.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellant and the
examiner, reference is made to the briefs and the answers for
the respective details thereof.
OPINION
We reverse the rejection of claims 1 through 6 under
35 U.S.C. § 103.
In reviewing the examiner's statement of the rejection at
pages 2 and 3 of the answer, the examiner asserts that certain
portions of Yan teach the claimed feature of generating linear
combinations of the placement vectors. In the middle of page
3 of the answer, however, the examiner then indicates that the
reference does not explicitly teach that feature but only
suggests it in a different location in the reference. In the
statement of the rejection as well as the responsive arguments
portion of the answer, the examiner does not return to or
effectively rely upon in any manner this reference as a basis
to explain the combinability or correlation of its teachings
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