Appeal No. 1999-2040
Application No. 08/475,023 Page 22
With respect to claim 19 which depends from claim 10,
Oshikoshi discloses (col. 8, lines 7-11) inputting of characters
"such as names, dates, and the like" via the keyboard and that
the inputted characters are subjected to the same image
processing as CG images. We additionally find that hyphens,
slash lines, parenthesis, underlining, etc. that can be inputted
by the keyboard, teach or suggest the claimed "lines."
Accordingly, the rejection of claim 19 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
is affirmed.
With respect to claims 3-5, 15, and 16 we observe that these
claims depend from claims 1 and 9. We reverse the rejection of
claims 3-5, 15, and 16 because Oshikoshi does not make up for the
deficiencies of Spaulding.
We turn next to the rejection of claims 8 and 11-13 under 35
U.S.C. § 103(a). As evidence of obviousness, the examiner offers
Spaulding, the admitted prior art, and Oshikoshi.
We turn first to independent claim 8. The examiner's
position (answer, page 8) is that Spaulding does not explicitly
show a show making the "ratios of the components of the adjusted
color and the nominal color the same.” To overcome the
deficiency in Spaulding, the examiner relies upon the admitted
prior art of page 2 for a teaching of this limitation.
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