Appeal No. 2000-1515 Page 11
Application No. 08/687,195
then displaying the divided, original sentence and a divided,
translated sentence in vertically juxtaposed positions.
Having determined what subject matter is being claimed, the
next inquiry is whether the subject matter is obvious. "’A prima
facie case of obviousness is established when the teachings from
the prior art itself would appear to have suggested the claimed
subject matter to a person of ordinary skill in the art.’" In re
Bell, 991 F.2d 781, 783, 26 USPQ2d 1529, 1531 (Fed. Cir. 1993)
(quoting In re Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1051, 189 USPQ 143, 147
(CCPA 1976)).
Here, Adachi’s translator divides an original sentence into
phrases, viz., “the original is divided into phrases by said
dividing means and the phrases are translated by said translation
processing means.” Col. 2, ll. 25-27. More specifically, the
original sentence is divided “in accordance with a predetermined
rule for division. . . .” Id. at ll. 21-22. “The original
sentence division unit 24 performs division processing by the use
of the division grammar. (step 108) Namely, when an example of
English sentence as shown in FIG. 5A is input, it is divided into
elemental units of the sentence. . . .” Col. 4, ll. 52-57.
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