Appeal No. 1999-2818
Application No. 08/502,037
pages 47-52, Aug. 1994.
Claims 1, 6, 11, 17 and 24, all of the independent claims on
appeal, are rejected as unpatentable over Ferraro under 35 U.S.C.
103(a). At page 47, under Section 2.8.5 titled “Block Transfers”,
Ferraro discloses that block transfers move a block of data from a
source location to a destination location. At page 51 of that
section under “Color Expansion”, the reference teaches that a
popular function in computer graphics is to transfer data that is
in one color format to a second color format during the move
operation. This is a teaching of appellants’ invention of
performing color conversion during a blitter operation. It is
apparent that the conversion would have been accomplished by
computer instructions generated within processing apparatus, which
apparatus would have included means for executing the
instructions.
Summary
The rejection of claims 1, 3-22 and 24-29 is reversed.
A new ground of rejection has been entered against
independent claims 1, 6, 11, 17 and 24. The issue of the
patentability of dependent claims 3-5, 7-10, 12-16, 18-22 and 25-
29 over Ferraro is left for the examiner’s determination.
The new ground of rejection is not final for purposes of
judicial review. 37 CFR § 1.196(b). This rule also provides that
the appellants, WITHIN TWO MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THE DECISION,
must exercise one of the following two options with respect to the
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