Appeal No. 2004-0953 Page 3
Application No. 09/215,593
Claims 1-17 and 19-22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Smith in view of Plantz,
Aoyama, Ogawa and Adobe Acrobat Review.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding the above-noted rejection,
we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 11, mailed
March 24, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support
of the rejection, and to appellants' brief (Paper No. 10, filed
March 5, 2003) for appellants' arguments thereagainst. Only
those arguments actually made by appellants have been considered
in this decision. Arguments which appellants could have made but
chose not to make in the brief have not been considered.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have carefully
considered the subject matter on appeal, the rejection advanced
by the examiner, and the evidence of obviousness relied upon by
the examiner as support for the rejection. We have, likewise,
reviewed and taken into consideration, in reaching our decision,
appellants' arguments set forth in the brief along with the
examiner's rationale in support of the rejection and arguments in
rebuttal set forth in the examiner's answer.
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