Appeal No. 1998-3332 Page 10
Application No. 08/643,961
Because Nathans records its descramble code separate from
its scrambled stripe, and there is no evidence that the AAPA’s
encryption would have been desirable for Nathans code and
stripe, we are not persuaded that teachings from the prior art
would have suggested the combination of AAPA nor the claimed
limitations of "(a) acquiring a first digital representation
of at least one of a picture and signature of said legitimate
holder of said instrument, (b) extracting first feature data
from said digital representation, (c) combining said feature
data with said personal data into a single data sequence, (d)
generating a security code by encrypting said single data
sequence" or "a private secret key encrypted machine readable
security code ..., said code being comprised of a combination
of a digitized form of said personal information and a
digitized descriptor of a first feature data of said
photograph ....” Therefore, we reverse the rejection of
claims 11, 12, 16, 31, and 32 as being obvious over Nathans,
AAPA, and either Lee or Silverman and the rejection of claims
3 and 13-15 as being obvious over Nathans, Bonicalzi, AAPA,
Petajan, and either Lee or Silverman.
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