Appeal No. 1998-0447
Application No. 08/477,893
Application Serial No. 05/796,896, for both the present
application and the patent to Schroeder. Therefore, Schroeder
and the present application have the same effective filing
date for such subject matter. Consequently, Schroeder is
unavailable as a reference against the present claims.
As to the remaining references, Rhodes teaches a
plurality of side-by-side strips, electrically activated in
two groups, each group comprising a plurality of strips and
each group being activatable independently of the other group;
the two groups are alternately energized at a frequency of
repetition to produce the appearance of a continuous display.
Such groups are inherently energized in a repeated patterned
sequence (i.e., group 1, group 2, group 1, group 2, etc.).
However, as admitted by the examiner (Answer, page 5), Rhodes
fails to disclose segmenting the electrically activatable
light emitting matter, as recited in claim 1. Thus, contrary
to the examiner's assertion (Answer, page 7), Rhodes cannot
disclose electrodes narrower than the light segments.
Evans discloses (column 1, lines 55-57, column 1, line
75- column 2, line 3, and column 2, lines 62-67) that the
conductive lines of an electroluminescent display can be
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