Appeal 2007-0608
Application 09/738,647
contends that the combination of Shojima and Cok teaches the cited claimed
limitation as a mechanism for improving the user’s input handwriting by
combining a digitized picture of said handwriting with a corresponding
normative handwritten font. Therefore, the Examiner concludes that it
would have been obvious to combine Shojima and Cok to yield the
invention as recited in claims 3, 83 and 13 through 16. (Answer 6 and 8).
We affirm in part.
ISSUES
The pivotal issues in the appeal before us are as follows:
(1) Have Appellants shown that the Examiner has failed to establish that
one of ordinary skill in the art, at time of the present invention, would
have found that the disclosure of Shojima renders the claimed invention
unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a), when Shojima teaches
comparing an input handwritten character data with a registered data
dictionary to recognize a most similar pattern, as well as to select and
display a font corresponding to the recognized character pattern?
(2) Have Appellants shown that the Examiner has failed to establish that
one of ordinary skill in the art, at the time of the present invention,
would have found that the combined disclosures of Shojima and Cok
render the claimed invention unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
when Cok teaches a mechanism for improving the handwriting sample
of a user?
3 We note that the Examiner rejected claim 8 over Shojima alone. We will
enter infra a new ground of rejection against claim 8 as being unpatentable
over Shojima and Cok.
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