Appeal No. 1999-0003 Page 8
Application No. 08/642,742
Cir. 1993) (quoting In re Bell, 991 F.2d 781, 782, 26 USPQ2d
1529, 1531 (Fed. Cir. 1993)).
Here, Loizides teaches “[a] method and means for
generating a multilevel compressed index.” Abs., ll. 1-2.
“The multilevel index includes a compressed low-level index
L1, and compressed high-level indexes L2, L3, and L4.” Col.
5, ll. 62-64. Although the reference’s index includes
multiple compressed levels, the levels are not formats for
encoding video data as claimed. To the contrary, the index is
used “for locating information in a machine-readable file,
data set, or data base.” Col. 3, ll. 7-9. Levels L1-L4 of
the index, moreover, “are used to retrieve information from
data level (L0).” Col. 5, ll. 61-62.
Relying on Naimpally to “teach[] decoder 310 for
partially decoding the encoded data to provide the recovered
luminance and chrominance components YUV[,]” (Examiner's
Answer at 4), and Ackland to disclose data encoded “not in
form suitable for displaying[,]” (Final Rejection at 5), and
“RGB format and YUV format[,]” (id.), the examiner fails to
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