Appeal No. 2005-0338
Application No. 10/003,840
Opinion
We have carefully considered the subject matter on appeal, the rejections
advanced by the examiner and the evidence of obviousness relied upon by the
examiner as support for the rejections. We have, likewise, reviewed and taken into
consideration, in reaching our decision, the appellants’ arguments set forth in the briefs,
along with the examiner’s rationale in support of the rejections and arguments in
rebuttal set forth in the examiner’s answer.
With full consideration being given to the subject matter on appeal, the
examiner’s rejections and the arguments of appellants and examiner, for the reasons
stated infra, we will not sustain the examiner’s rejection of claims 1 through 20, 22
through 42 and 44 through 46 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Appellants argue on page 4 of the brief that:
The combination of Reinhardt and Helman et al., however, does not teach or
suggest the present invention, which is directed to the modification of tags and/or
parameters associated with the tags of formatted information defined by a
markup language to achieve power savings in a display of the formatted
information on a display device. Rather, the combination as proposed by the
Examiner, if anything would suggest the modification of tag information in a color
television signal to minimizing display artifacts while preserving the relative visual
contrast between foreground and background. The problem solved by Helman et
al. (i.e. reducing artifacts) is simply a different one than that solved by Reinhardt
(i.e. saving power), and there is no suggestion in either Reinhardt or Helman et
al. to modify the method of Reinhardt in light of the teachings of Helman et al. in
order to obtain the present claimed invention.
In response, the examiner states, on pages 13 and 14 of the answer:
Reinhardt teaches a method for screen power saving by reducing power
to a subset of displaying pixels according to the user (lines 10-14 of column 4
and lines 12-32 of column 5 and Fig. 3a). Reinhardt teaches allowing each
individual software program to determine which pixels are important to the user
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