Reexamination Control No. 90/005,742
Patent 5,253,341
1 Dependent claim 96 specifies that the response comprises an animation sequence. The
2 examiner reads this limitation on "116, 8, abstract, col. 12, lines 5-12." 3d Action at 96, para.
3 35; Final Action at 251, para. 35. The numeral “116” apparently refers to modulator 116 in
4 Figure 5, which depicts the components of the user terminal. This numeral is not mentioned in
5 the specification but is shown in Figure 5 as designating a line connecting controller 104 to
6 telephone interface 122. Dr. Koopman correctly notes that these numerals and the cited passages
7 do not indicate that the requested presentation can comprise an animated sequence. 2d Koopman
8 Decl. at 187, para. 404. The examiner has not explained why Dr. Koopman's criticism is
9 incorrect or asserted that another part of Pocock discloses an animated sequence. Final Action
10 at 217-18, para. 404; Answer at 206-07, para. 404. The rejection for anticipation of claim 96
11 over Pocock is therefore reversed.
12 Claim 100 repeats the preamble and paragraphs (a) to (d) of claim 93 and recites as
13 paragraph (e): "wherein said compressed or non-compressed response comprises an image,"
14 which clearly reads on Pocock's disclosure of transmitting video frames. The rejection of claim
15 100 for anticipation by Pocock is therefore affirmed.
16 Claim 101 repeats the preamble and paragraphs (a) to (d) of claim 93 and recites as
17 step (e):
18 (e) wherein said compressed or non-compressed response is
19 compressed prior to receipt at said remote query and data retrieval means,
20 and wherein said compressed response is decompressed at said remote
21 query and data retrieval means using an asymmetric technique
22 corresponding to an inverse operation of the technique used to compress
23 said compressed or non-compressed response.
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25 Regarding the first of these "wherein" clauses, the examiner properly relies on Pocock's
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