Appeal No. 1999-0890
Application 07/575,096
inexpensive substantial amounts of memory available for computers
such as those disclosed by Appellants and the applied references,
it was the norm to record complete separate records.
One important indicium of non-obviousness is "teaching away"
from the claimed invention by the prior art. In re Dow Chemical
Co., 837 F.2d 469, 473, 5 USPQ2d 1529, 1532 (Fed. Cir. 1988),
In re Bell, 991 F.2d 781, 784, 26 USPQ2d 1529, 1531
(Fed. Cir. 1993). Here, Iggulden teaches away from communicating
and storing the combined form and signature data for later
retrieval as it separately transmits each document through the
transmission line to a “FAX” after completion of the individual
transaction.
Furthermore, the Examiner's contention that replacing the
charge slip on a digitizing pad of Dunkley by the touch sensitive
form display screen is obvious because it merely provides an
automatic means to replace a manual activity (the paper sales-
docket) used in the prior art to accomplish the same result is
not supported in this case. Without deciding the validity of the
proposition for which the Examiner cites Venner9, the
incorporation of the write input device with a touch sensitive
9Id. at 6.
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