Appeal No. 1996-4148
Application No. 08/327,085
citing W. L. Gore & Assocs., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d
1540, 1548, 220 USPQ 303, 309 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied,
469 U.S. 851 (1984).
On pages 4-6 of the brief, Appellant argues that Kreitman
et al. fails to teach Appellant's claimed limitations. In
particular, Appellant argues that Kreitman et al. fail to
teach that the informational images are on pages within a
carrousel, as claimed in Appellant's claim 1, and that there
is no teaching in the prior art that would suggest to those
skilled in the art to substitute, or how to substitute, a
carrousel for the cube of Kreitman et al.
Appellant further argues that the geometric
configurations of Kreitman et al. limit the number of faces
and informational images by increasing cluttering and
confusion as they proliferate, whereas Appellant's carrousel
configuration allows
any number of images to be displayed without cluttering the
screen with representational shapes.
Appellant also argues that if it were obvious to one
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