Ex parte HAISMA et al. - Page 6




          Appeal No. 1998-3031                                                        
          Application No. 08/511,507                                                  


          and the foreground and background processing in Jackson,” that              
          the obviousness rejection appears to be based on hindsight,                 
          and that “unrelated prior art references have been put                      
          together in an unworkable combination.”                                     
                                      DECISION                                        
               The decision of the examiner rejecting claims 1 through                
          10 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.                                       


                                      REVERSED                                        




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