Ex parte HANAOKA et al. - Page 11




          Appeal No. 96-3561                                                          
          Application No. 08/045,241                                                  


          displayed needs to be changed.  Hayden has no such teaching or              
          suggestion of this specifically claimed limitation.                         
               Accordingly, we will not sustain the rejection of claim 7              
          under 35 U.S.C. 103.                                                        
               Claim 11 also recites a memory means having a “character               
          code memory region and an external character memory region,                 
          for memorizing a graphic data relating to said specific                     
          function in said external character memory region.”  While the              
          examiner points to a “key means” and a “control means” in                   
          Hayden, with regard to claim 11 [answer-page 3], the examiner               
          never comes to grips with the specific structure of the                     
          memory, as claimed, noting only, with regard to previous                    
          claims, that it would have been “obvious to have memory means               
          and external memory means to store graph data and character                 
          data, so as to provide more information...”                                 
               While claim 11 appears similar to claim 14, the rejection              
          of which we have sustained, the language of claim 11 ties                   
          together the character code memory region and the external                  
          character memory region by reciting that the memory means is                
          “for memorizing a graphic data relating to said specific                    
          function [selected by the key means] in said external                       
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