Appeal No. 2002-0279
Application No. 09/164,795
been obvious to apply Sobol to IBM because of Sobol’s “taught
advantage of scalable vectors, providing the advantage of scaling
to IBM” (answer-page 19). The examiner further states that the
Windows Metafile Clipboard format is a well known data format for
the transfer of data within the software art.
It is appellants’ position that Sobol teaches data
compression and the ability to compress grayscale data, “which is
a totally different concept” (brief-page 17).
Since the examiner points out that column 8, lines 39-42, of
Sobol clearly teaches that the compressed data file may also be
accessed immediately to “allow the image represented thereby to
be scaled and/or rotated as necessary...” and appellants do not
respond, we find for the examiner and hold that Sobol does teach
that a data type for a region of a document may be a black and
white scalable vector, as claimed. In addition, since the
examiner has set forth a reasonable basis for making the
combination, which is not convincingly rebutted by appellants, we
will sustain the rejection of claim 5 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
We have sustained the rejection of claims 1-4, 6 and 10-14
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a). We have sustained the rejection of
claims 1-6, 8-15, 17-19 and 20-23 under 35 U.S.C. § 103. We have
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