Appeal No. 1998-2003
Application No. 08/440,246
the examiner. As a consequence of our review, we will affirm the
obviousness rejection of claims 1, 4, 5, and 8.
Appellant's arguments are primarily directed to the
combinability of Adobe's PDF format and hyperlinks with Steiner's
system. Appellant states (Brief, page 6) that the examiner "offered
vague and superficial reasons to make the combination," and that the
"alleged benefits could be applied to anything in any situation."
Appellant continues that the combination is based on hindsight, as
"there is nothing specific ... that would compel an artisan to take
Steiner, et al., in particular, and select for combination the PDF
format found in Adobe." Appellant also contends (Brief, page 9) that
the references themselves do not articulate the motivation for
combining.
We disagree. Steiner (column 2, lines 1-4) discloses that
electronic maps are stored either as bit maps or vectors that point
to map characters. Further, Steiner states (column 2, lines 14-17)
that bitmaps are easier to develop and are more accurate, but vector
maps require less memory and are more easily sorted for features and
attributes. Thus, Steiner suggests the desire for the benefits of a
bit map while reducing the amount of data required and having the
ability to sort for features and attributes.
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