Ex Parte McIntyre et al - Page 5



          Appeal No. 2006-1643                                        Παγε 5                          
          Application No. 09/845,589                                                                  

          available to one having ordinary skill in the art.  Uniroyal,                               
          Inc. v. Rudkin-Wiley Corp., 837 F.2d 1044, 1051, 5 USPQ2d 1434,                             
          1438 (Fed. Cir. 1988); Ashland Oil, Inc. v. Delta Resins &                                  
          Refractories, Inc., 776 F.2d 281, 293, 227 USPQ 657, 664 (Fed.                              
          Cir. 1985); ACS Hosp. Sys., Inc. v. Montefiore Hosp., 732 F.2d                              
          1572, 1577, 221 USPQ 929, 933 (Fed. Cir. 1984).  These showings                             
          by the examiner are an essential part of complying with the                                 
          burden of presenting a prima facie case of obviousness.  Note In                            
          re Oetiker, 977 F.2d 1443, 1445, 24 USPQ2d 1443, 1444 (Fed. Cir.                            
          1992).  If that burden is met, the burden then shifts to the                                
          applicant to overcome the prima facie case with argument and/or                             
          evidence.  Obviousness is then determined on the basis of the                               
          evidence as a whole.  See id.; In re Hedges, 783 F.2d 1038, 1039,                           
          228 USPQ 685, 686 (Fed. Cir. 1986); In re Piasecki, 745 F.2d                                
          1468, 1472, 223 USPQ 785, 788 (Fed. Cir. 1984); and In re                                   
          Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1052, 189 USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976).                               
               We begin with claim 1.  The examiner's position (answer,                               
          page 4) is that FJCP does not explicitly disclose manually fixing                           
          the cut-out visual images on a page to form a composite image                               
          which can be used in a scrapbook, but that it was well known in                             
          the art to cut out digital images for scrapbooking purposes.  The                           














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