Appeal No. 2000-1531
Application No. 08/897,405
examiner recognizes that Bloomberg fails to disclose the
claimed set of hand drawn marks including a command
designator, a selection designator and other hand drawn marks,
an analysis to determine the presence of the selection
designator indicating the selection of the action to be
performed and the initiation of that action
by the computing device if the hand drawn selection designator
is present.
The examiner turns to Endo to supply these recognized
deficiencies in Bloomberg and contends that it would have been
obvious to combine Endo’s selection designators and command
designators with Bloomberg’s image markup detection device
because “it would have provided a method to perform various
editing operations on the text surrounded by Bloomberg’s
circles” [answer-pages 4-5].
Our analysis of Bloomberg comports with appellant’s
assessment that Bloomberg merely “teaches the identification
of hand drawn marks on a medium by distinguishing such marks
from machine written (e.g. printed) marks” [brief-page 5].
The examiner’s combination of teachings would take the
extraction of the hand drawn marks taught by Bloomberg and
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