Appeal No. 97-1504
Application No. 08/400,190
The thrust of the Wagai invention is to improve upon the
prior art situation in which the display switch has to be
operated many times in order to display a plurality of stored
messages (column 2, line 9 et seq.). To overcome this
problem, Wagai teaches displaying stored messages either
sequentially by scrolling through them or manually, one at a
time. According to the Wagai method, stored messages are
sequentially presented in a scrolling manner so long as the
user depresses (activates) and holds switch 11. When the
switch is released, the scrolling stops and a single message
is displayed. Another message is manually displayed if switch
11 is momentarily activated. See column 7, line 26 et seq.
This is essentially the opposite of the method recited in the
appellant’s claims. Wagai does not disclose or teach a method
wherein a free-running display of stored messages is initiated
by the receipt of a user input signal to a multiple function
switch without further receipt of a user input signal, and
wherein said free-running display is terminated and a manual
display mode initiated upon receipt of a subsequent user input
signal. In other words, wherein the appellant’s invention is
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