Appeal No. 1998-0629
Application 08/234,525
it recites application of this concept to determining a
standard dimensional value from a frequency distribution of a
character dimensional characteristic and it is this
application which must be shown by the Examiner to have been
obvious. Wilber does not generate a frequency distribution of
a character dimensional characteristic or determine a standard
dimensional value to be used for normalizing the character
dimensional characteristics. As discussed in connection with
similar limitations in claim 16, the "standardizing" in Wilber
is not the same as the claimed "normalizing," as apparently
assumed by the Examiner, because it does not use any quantity
comparable to a "standard dimensional value determined from a
frequency distribution of a selected one of said character
dimensional characteristics" (the language in claim 16 was an
"attribute value standard" determined from a "set of attribute
values"). Thus, the Examiner fails to explain why it would
have been obvious to apply the concept of determining a
standard value from a frequency distribution to the character
recognition method in Wilber.
For these reasons, we conclude that the Examiner has
failed to establish a prima facie case of obviousness with
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