Appeal No. 2003-0227
Application No. 09/428,871
accessing a digital image based on the functional path
name directory and producing a print from the digital image.
THE REFERENCES
Craig 5,790,176 Aug. 4, 1998
Garfinkle et al. (Garfinkle) 6,017,157 Jan. 25, 2000
(filed Dec. 24, 1996)
THE REJECTION
Claims 1-90 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Garfinkle in view of Craig.
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejection. We need to address
only the independent claims, i.e., claims 1, 21, 37, 45, 51, 57,
63, 71, 76, and 87.
The appellants state (brief, page 5), and the examiner
agrees (answer, page 3), that the claims stand or fall together.
The claims, however, cannot stand together because different
inventions are claimed. Independent claims 1, 21, 45, 51, 57, 71
and 76 are directed toward a system, method or protocol for
multi-tier digital image data storage, whereas independent
claims 37, 63 and 87 are directed toward a method or protocol for
using a unique file identification value to access a digital
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