Ex parte SAITO et al. - Page 5




          Appeal No. 96-1339                                                          
          Application 08/089,433                                                      

          (pages referred to as "Br__") for a statement of appellants'                
          arguments thereagainst.                                                     
                                       OPINION                                        
               The claims are argued to stand or fall together (Br3).                 
          Claim 1 is considered as the representative claim.                          
               Appellants argue that Norden-Paul teaches no more than                 
          the admitted prior art list shown in appellants' figure 1 and               
          that Saito teaches no more than the admitted prior art                      
          graphical representation of time-series data shown in                       
          appellants' figure 2 (Br6).  We agree with these findings.                  
               Appellants argue that there is no suggestion in either                 
          Norden-Paul or Saito to display a time-series list of                       
          numerical-value data and a time-series graph of such data                   
          simultaneously on a display screen.  We agree.                              
               The examiner sets out several reasons why the                          
          simultaneous display limitation is either taught (because of                
          the way it is claimed) or would have been obvious over                      
          Norden-Paul and Saito, none of which reasons we find                        
          persuasive.                                                                 





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