Appeal No. 1999-0477 Page 5
Application No. 08/571,236
The examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to
“use a ‘smart’ card taught by Moreno for the interactive
system taught by Biggs in order to provide more security when
the user is using the interactive system.”
The appellant asserts (brief, page 6), inter alia, that
any obvious combination of Biggs and Moreno would not yield
the appellant’s invention. We agree, for the reasons which
follow.
The appellant asserts (brief, page 7) Biggs does not
disclose an image overlay means for overlaying an image
corresponding to said received data on another image displayed
on the television receiver. From the examiner’s statement,
(answer, page 4) that the “overlaying image, ordered by the
user is send [sic] to the user’s TELEVISION receiver to
replace the old program” it is clear that as recognized by the
examiner, the image corresponding to the received data
“replaces” and does not overlay another image. In addition,
we find that although Biggs’s discloses (col. 3, lines 1-5)
that “[t]he access phone 10 can be interfaced with a . . .
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