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Appeal No. 95-2631
Application 07/950,402
specification noted by the examiner, we understand these portions
as merely referring to whether the present or the updated values
of the parameters are displayed, and not to whether different
parameters are displayed. As to Yoshiura, while we appreciate
that this reference broadly teaches a display having the capacity
to display less than all of the system parameters, there is no
suggestion in either Kinoshita or Yoshiura, or need in view of
their divergent objectives, for their combination. This is
especially so in that Kinoshita’s display is large enough to
easily display all five of the system’s settable parameters
simultaneously. This constitutes a first reason necessitating
reversal of the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-5, 8 and 10.
We also see nothing whatsoever in the combined teachings of
Kinoshita and Yoshiura which would have suggested to one of
ordinary skill in the art the step of and/or means for selecting
parameters for displaying on a display screen by activating a
menu portion of the input means, as called for to one degree or
calls for the step of “providing display means for simultaneously
displaying only a portion of less than the whole of all of the
parameters,” and claim 10 calls for the step of “selecting for
display on the display device a portion of less than the whole of
operational parameters set forth in a plurality of display menus
. . . .”
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