Appeal No. 2004-0227
Application 09/140,151
As pointed out by the examiner (answer, page 3), Verschuur
does not store the measured variations in capacitance and compare
later-measured information to the stored information. Instead,
Verschuur compares measured information to previously-stored
information about similar patterns. This indicates that
Verschuur’s statement that “the information can be verified”
(col. 8, line 12) does not pertain to security information which,
it reasonably appears, would require comparison not merely with
similar information but, rather, with the information exactly as
it should be. The examiner has not provided evidence or
technical reasoning which shows that Verschuur’s comparison with
similar patterns is applicable to security information.
Thus, to arrive at the appellants’ claimed invention, one of
ordinary skill in the art would have had to modify Verschuur’s
system and method, in view of Brosow and Stockburger, such that
dielectric particles are formed on the contents of Verschuur’s
envelope in a random distribution in addition to the pattern of
Verschuur’s bar-code or conventional or self-defined symbols,
capacitance variation information about that random distribution
is measured and stored, in addition to Verschuur’s information on
similar patterns being stored, the same random distribution, in
addition to Verschuur’s pattern other than the similar pattern,
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