Appeal No. 2006-1910
Application No. 09/910,654
Even though ARC teaches that the agent coupon data could
be stored electronically even though such storage would not be in
compliance with their rules, we made reference to facsimile
transmission and multimedia transmission to support our finding
that it was conventional in the art to transmit image data in
electronic form for subsequent conversion back into image data.
We simply do not agree with appellant’s argument that facsimile
transmission or multimedia transmission of images is image data
rather than electronic data. In such communications, the images
are converted to electronic signals which are reassembled into
images after they are received. Since the images convey data
regarding the airline ticket, the electronic form of the image
also conveys data. Therefore, we still find that the image of
the agent coupon represents data so that the electronic version
of the image also represents data.
As noted above, our position is nothing more than a
conclusion that it would have been obvious to the artisan to
store the agent coupon image data as taught by ARC as electronic
data because ARC recognized that such image data could also be
stored electronically and because the artisan was familiar with
converting image data into electronic data as required by
facsimile and multimedia transmission.
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