Ex parte DANIELSON et al. - Page 6

               Appeal No. 1998-0417                                                                                                   
               Application No. 08/682,419                                                                                             


               Because the examiner has not adequately addressed how Beauregard is considered to have                                 

               disclosed or suggested the claimed subject matter wherein a determination of a simple convex polygon                   

               is made by looking at different numbers of direction changes, or thresholds, depending on the position,                

               or disposition, of the starting vertex, we hold that the examiner has not established a prima facie case of            

               obviousness.                                                                                                           

               The examiner’s decision rejecting claims 1, 6-8 and 13-23 under 35 U.S.C. 103 is reversed.                             



                                                            REVERSED                                                                  





                                       JAMES D. THOMAS                )                                                               
                                       Administrative Patent Judge            )                                                       
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                                       ERROL A. KRASS                         ) BOARD OF PATENT                                       
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                               HOWARD B. BLANKENSHIP                          )                                                       
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