Appeal No. 1997-2397
Application No. 08/061,286
In response, Appellant (Brief, pages 11-15) contends that,
since the Examiner has not established proper motivation for
combining Nickell and Geraci, a prima facie case of obviousness
has not been established. After careful review of the Nickell
and Geraci references in light of the arguments of record, we
are in agreement with Appellant’s position as stated in the
Brief.
Our interpretation of the colorization process described
by Nickell coincides with that of Appellant. In Nickell, a
single page of color information is created from a black and
white image by an indication of what areas of the black and
white image are to be colored. In our view, the colorization
process described by Nickell in which the manipulation of data
in color separation files is never disclosed, has little
relationship to a process in which data in separate color
separation files are combined to produce a color image such as
described in Geraci. It is our opinion that the Examiner has
combined the general teachings of the black and white to color
conversion system of Nickell with the trapping resultant color
separation files conversion system of Geraci in some vague
manner without specifically describing how the teachings would
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