Appeal No. 1999-0475
Application No. 08/402,031
would overcome the innate deficiencies of Montagna discussed
previously.
We next consider the Examiner’s 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection
of claims 19-24, 26-30, and 32 based on the combination of
Montagna and Freiman. We initially note that, unlike
independent claims
1 and 14 discussed previously which include the feature of
displaying a list of documents and a kit of documents,
independent claim 19, rather, includes a recitation directed
to the storing in a plurality of formats, documents and forms
that were created in a plurality of native applications.
Recognizing that Montagna lacks a disclosure of this feature,
the Examiner turns to Freiman which, according to the
Examiner, discloses at column 2, lines 17-37, the converting
of documents and forms in various formats. In the Examiner’s
view, the skilled artisan would have recognized the
obviousness of incorporating the
data conversion features of Freiman into the system of
Montagna
“ . . . in order to store documents and forms created in
different formats and converting these documents and forms
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