Appeal No. 1997-1584
Application No. 08/353,375
which Appellants could have made but chose not to make in the
Brief have not been considered [see 37 CFR § 1.192(a)].
With respect to representative independent claim 1, the
Examiner, as the basis for the obviousness rejection, proposes
to modify the image retrieval system disclosure of Saki by
relying on Kimura to supply the missing teaching of utilizing
an analog signal generator to select a desired region from
overlapping regions. In the Examiner’s view (Answer, page 4),
the skilled artisan would have found it obvious to substitute
the analog signal generating stylus of Kimura for the pointing
device of Saki to provide a high precision determination of
detected coordinates.
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