Appeal 2007-2215
Application 09/918,287
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2 Claims 2-7 each depend directly or indirectly from claim 1 and thus also include
3 the same steps as quoted above.
4 The Obviousness Rejection of
5 Claims 8-15 over Blank, Gluck, and Shniberg
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7 With respect to the imaging service kiosk of claim 8, the Examiner states
8 (Answer 9, l. 18 to 10, l. 3):
9 Blank does not expressly disclose that seating information
10 representative of a seating location of the customer at an
11 entertainment event may be entered through the input section, that the
12 image services comprise at least one image of the participant at the
13 entertainment event and at least one image of the customer while
14 viewing the entertainment event, that the imaging service is selected
15 either prior to attendance at an entertainment event or while in
16 attendance at the event or where the seating location of the
17 customer is used in directing an image capture device toward the
18 seating location. (Emphasis added.)
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20 The examiner does not follow up with any statement that Blank either inherently or
21 implicitly disclose any of the features that it does not expressly disclose.
22 Accordingly, the above-quoted text is taken as meaning that Blank does not
23 disclose the enumerated features, expressly, implicitly, or inherently.
24 To make up for some of the above-noted deficiencies of Blank, the
25 Examiner relies on the teachings of Gluck. But even the Examiner has recognized
26 that Gluck does not teach the claim element of “where the seating location of the
27 customer is used in directing an image capture device toward the seating location.”
28 For that claim feature, the Examiner relies on the teaching of Shniberg.
29 In that regard, the Examiner states (Answer 11, l. 17 to 12, l. 7):
30 Further in analogous art, Shniberg discloses, in Fig. 1, 4 and 6,
31 an imaging service offered to a customer, which takes images of the
32 customer at a seating location and where the seating location of the
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