Appeal No. 1997-1572
Application 07/792,534
254 (CCPA 1967) (“This court has uniformly followed the sound
rule that an issue raised below which is not argued in this
court, even if it has been properly brought here by reason of
appeal is regarded as abandoned and will not be considered.
It is our function as a court to decide disputed issues, not
to create them.”).
We now treat the rejections before us.
Rejection of Claims 1, 3, 7 to 12 and 16 to 21 under 35
U.S.C. § 103
These claims are rejected as being obvious over
Nakatsuka. We first take the broad independent claim 11. The
Examiner asserts [answer, pages 3 to 4 and 7] that, in
Nakatsuka, the accelerator comprises: “a collection processor
operable to receive the first data, to convert the first data
into stroke data and to output the stroke data ... ; a user
independent handprint memory operable to store user
independent handprint samples ... ; and a recognition
processor ... to compare the stroke data to the samples and
output the second data based on the results of the comparisons
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