Appeal No. 1998-1389 Page 11
Application No. 08/553232
includes at least one image attribute, wherein the
representation is formed and modified in accordance with the
image attribute of the pasteboard. To overcome this
deficiency in Brotsky, the examiner turns to Smith. The
examiner asserts that Smith discloses a document management
and production system in which documents are represented as
logical components or "objects" that can be physically mapped
onto a page-by-page layout. The examiner asserts (answer,
pages 5-6) that Figure 4 of Smith teaches a pasteboard with a
frame 36 that includes layout document components and their
corresponding attributes. According to the examiner, the
representation is formed and modified in accordance with the
pasteboard image attributes. The examiner's position (id.) is
that it would have been obvious "to include the 'page objects'
of Smith into the invention of Brotsky because it allows one
to create an image or a plurality of layout images that is
'layout driven'."
Appellants assert (answer, pages 7 and 8) that
obviousness cannot be established by combining the teachings
of the prior art to produce the claimed invention without a
teaching, suggestion, or motivation to support the
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