Appeal No. 1998-1386 Page 16
Application No. 08/269,156
not adequately enabled by the description of the invention
provided in the specification of the application ....” In re
Wright, 999 F.2d 1557, 1561-62, 27 USPQ2d 1510, 1513 (Fed.
Cir. 1993) (citing In re Marzocchi, 439 F.2d 220, 223-24, 169
USPQ 367, 369-70 (CCPA 1971)).
Here, the examiner fails to set forth a reasonable
explanation why the scope of protection provided by the claims
is not adequately enabled by the specification. Even before
the invention, computer-implementations of segmentation
processing and context processing were known in the art of
handwriting recognition. (Spec. at 1-2.) Turning to the
invention, the specification explains that the invention can
be implemented on a platform comprising “a personal computer
using an Intel 66 MHZ 80486 microprocessor, running the
Microsoft Windows 3.1 operating system.” (Id. at 17.)
Figures 3-9 of the specification show detailed flow charts of
the functions described to be performed by such a computer.
The specification also lists “exemplary data structures and
functions that may be employed in programming in C language”
the computer to perform the functions. (Id.)
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