Appeal No. 2003-0781
Application 09/373,499
according to the examiner, meets the claimed FII. The examiner
finds that it would have been obvious to the artisan to
incorporate the teachings of Morcos into the system of Otala
[answer, pages 4-6].
Appellants argue that the examiner’s interpretation that
the COM of Morcos is the claimed FII is incorrect. Specifically,
appellants argue that the fact that the claimed FII can be
implemented as a COM does not mean that the COM of Morcos
implements the claimed functions of the FII. Appellants assert
that nowhere in Morcos is it disclosed that the FII communicates
with the application program, interfaces with a plurality of
image format handling modules, and routes image data and
application commands as claimed. Appellants also argue that the
examiner has failed to indicate how the system of Otala would be
modified to include the COM of Morcos. Appellants observe that
the proposed modification would result in a substantial
reconstruction of the Otala architecture [brief, pages 5-9].
The examiner responds by essentially repeating the
rejection [answer, pages 17-20].
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