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Ex parte TRAINOR et al. - Page 6Legal Research Home > Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences > 1997 > Ex parte TRAINOR et al. - Page 6
Appeal No. 95-2631
Application 07/950,402
electrical power distribution system voltage regulator, (2)
Kinoshita suggests at column 3, lines 41-43 and 60-91 that a
portion of a display can be presented at one time, and (3) that
Yoshiura suggests simultaneously displaying only a portion of a
display. Based on the above, the examiner concluded that it
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to
display a portion of the parameters in Kinoshita to enable more
information to be called to the display. Implicit in the above
is the examiner’s position that the apparatus of Kinoshita
modified in the proposed manner would correspond to the claimed
subject matter in all respects.
We cannot support this rejection. Even if we were to agree
with the examiner that Kinoshita is directed to an apparatus for
controlling an electrical power distribution system voltage
regulator and thus, contrary to appellants’ argued position,
constitutes analogous art, we are in accord with appellants that
Kinoshita does not disclose, suggest or infer using the display
unit 5 to display only a portion of the system’s user settable
operating parameters, as called for by each of independent claims
1, 8 and 10. With respect to the portions of Kinoshita’s3
3In this regard, claim 1 calls for a “display means for
simultaneously displaying only a portion of less than the whole
of all of said first and second category parameters,” claim 8
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