Appeal No. 96-3561
Application No. 08/045,241
always corresponds to the overall appearance of the
information processing device,” as broadly claimed.
Accordingly, we will sustain the rejection of claim 1
under 35 U.S.C. 103 over Hayden.
Claim 14 recites a memory means having a first region for
storing character information and a second region for storing
external characters and also storing graphic data representing
operation circumstances. Additionally, the claim recites a
“key means” for selecting an operation mode. Appellants’ sole
argument regarding this claim is that Hayden “fails to
disclose or suggest the combination of the first and second
memory means of claims 7 and 14" [brief-page 9].
We note that, contrary to appellants’ assertion, claim 14
does not recite a first and second memory means. Instead, a
single “memory means” including first and second memory
regions, is recited. In any event, the examiner argues that
it would have been “obvious to have memory means and external
memory means to store graph [sic, graphic?] data and character
data, so as to provide more information to a computer system”
[answer-page 3]. This argument appears reasonable to us since
memories do hold the information to be employed by a
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