Appeal No. 2006-1604 Page 7
Application No. 09/903,201
USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976). 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 and are deemed to be waived [see 37 CFR
§ 41.37(c)(1)(vii)(2004)].
GROUP I, claims 1-6 and 10-15
We consider first the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-6 and 10-15 that
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over the
teachings of Lin in view of Farago. Since Appellants’ arguments with respect
to this rejection have treated these claims as a single group which stand or
fall together, we will consider independent claim 1 as the representative
claim for this rejection.
We note that the primary Lin reference teaches an adaptor for
connecting a digital still camera directly to a printer. Lin’s invention thus
provides the capability of printing photos directly from a digital camera
without using a personal computer [Lin, col. 2, lines 38-46]. The examiner
relies upon Lin as teaching all the elements of the claimed invention except
the limitation of “a memory containing demonstration data for controlling the
peripheral to perform a demonstration” [answer, page 4]. The examiner
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