Appeal No. 1997-0403
Application 08/174,215
Claim 1 contains the same limitation, "wherein said
signals provided by said selected keys to said keyboard
controller when said special function key is active are
identical to signals provided by said selected keys to said
keyboard controller when said special function key is not
active," as claim 11. We found in connection with claim 11
that this limitation is not disclosed in Franz.
The Examiner states (EA4-5):
Franz et al fail to disclose a keyboard with mouse
pointer move keys.
Grant teaches a mouse pointer emulating apparatus
comprising a keyboard (10) with mouse pointer move keys
(2,4,6,8) and a display (4) (see figures 2, 7 and
column 3, lines 64-68). It would have been obvious to
have modified Franz et al with the feature of applying
mouse pointer move keys instead of a direction sensor
as taught by Grant, since Franz et al have a J key with
a direction sensor [which] could perform [the] same
function as mouse pointer move keys (2, 4, 6, 8) of
Grant when the apparatus of Franz et al in on [sic] a
mouse pointer function mode. Thus, the signals
provided by the mouse pointer move keys are identical
whether the special function key is active or not
active in the apparatus of Franz et al as modified by
Grant.
Appellants argue that "the Grant patent . . . does not
provide mouse movement keys, but instead provides cursor
movement keys" (Br9) and "the Grant reference shows
conventional cursor keys, not mouse pointer keys" (RBr6).
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