Appeal No. 1998-0741
Application 08/194,279
Claims 4-7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Nakajima in view of Nakamura, Chen and Abe.
Claims 8-11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Nakajima in view of Nakamura, Chen and
Sakuragi.
The respective positions of the examiner and the
appellants with regard to the propriety of these rejections
are set forth in the final rejection (Paper No. 10) and the
examiner’s answer (Paper No. 23) and the appellants’ brief
(Paper No. 17) and reply brief (Paper No. 24).
Opinion
After consideration of the positions and arguments
presented by both the examiner and the appellants, we have
concluded that the rejections should not be sustained.
Appellants argue in their brief that the examiner has
provided no proper motivation for applying Nakajima, Nakamura
and Chen to the claimed invention. In response to appellants’
argument, the answer at page 7 states that the above three
references all relate to document image processing and that
the combined art “…is to improve the document image
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