Appeal No. 1997-1665 Page 27
Application No. 08/289,134
comprises a number of loops defined by said handwriting."
Accordingly claims 14, 15, 16, and 17 require detecting a
direction and a length of a straight line of a line segment, a
radius and a center angle of an arc, an angle of a vertex, and
a number of loops defined by said handwriting, respectively.
Regarding claim 14 the examiner alleges, "CAPPS discloses
set of one or more characteristics of the input handwriting
comprises a direction and a length of a straight line of a
line segment (figure 2, element 56b)." (Appeal Br. at 6.)
The reference, however, does not support the allegation.
Although the drawing element of Capps on which the examiner
relies shows "a second header bar 56b, col. 5, l. 58, which is
a line, there is no suggestion of detecting the length of the
bar. The examiner fails to allege, let alone show, that
Shojima cures this deficiency.
In view of this deficiency, we are not persuaded that
teachings from the prior art would have suggested the
limitations of "said set of one or more characteristics of
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