Appeal No. 2004-0123
Application No. 09/118,922 Page 12
data." As is clear from our review of the prior art, subtitle
data is related to the video data. If not, the subtitle data
would not be provided. The fact that the subtitle data is
related to the video data is not a reason to combine the
teachings of Tsukagoshi with Fujita and Daum because the reason
to combine the teaching of Fujita, Daum and Tsukagoshi, to arrive
at appellant's invention, comes not from the prior art, but from
appellant's disclosure.
From all of the above, we find that although the examiner
has located all of the elements of the claimed invention in the
prior art, that because none of the references is directed to the
problem that appellant is solving, and do not suggest a different
reason for combining the teachings of the references, we find
that the only suggestion to combine the references comes from
appellant's own disclosure and appellant's teaching of how to
solve the problem decoding video data and sub-picture data
simultaneously at high speed by “skipping the current display
control sequence if the updated system clock reference value is
greater than the command executing start time.”
Obviousness may not be established using hindsight or in
view of the teachings or suggestions of the inventor. Para-
Ordnance Mfg. v. SGS Importers Int’l, 73 F.3d 1085, 1087,
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