Appeal No. 1997-1665 Page 28
Application No. 08/289,134
said input handwriting comprises a direction and a length of a
straight line of a line segment." Therefore, we reverse the
rejection of claim 14 as obvious over Capps in view of
Shojima.
Regarding claim 15 the examiner admits, "CAPPS is silent
about various characteristics of input hand [sic] handwriting
...." (Examiner's Answer at 7.) Faced with the silence he
alleges, "Shojima discloses a set of one characteristic of the
input handwriting comprises [sic] a radius and a center angle
of an arc (figure 7d)." (Id.) The reference, however, does
not support the allegation. Although the figure of Shojima on
which the examiner relies shows an arc, there is no suggestion
of detecting the radius or center angle of the arc.
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
said input handwriting comprises a radius and a center angle
of an arc." Therefore, we reverse the rejection of claim 15
as obvious over Capps in view of Shojima.
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