Appeal No. 1999-1687 Page 6
Application No. 08/152,102
788 (Fed. Cir. 1984); and In re Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1052,
189 USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976).
The examiner takes the position (answer, pages 4 and 5)
that Mizushima teaches the claimed invention, with the
exceptions of the flexible substrate being periodically
thinned, the desired color being effected by the emission
intensity and luminous color of adjacent picture elements, and
the different emission intensity of the picture elements. To
overcome these deficiencies in Mizushima, the examiner relies
upon Scheib for a teaching of mounting a plurality of LEDs on
a flexible substrate which is periodically thinned so as to
facilitate rolling of the display device. The examiner takes
the position (answer, pages 7 and 8) that a "flexible
substrate" and a "regular hard circuit board" are used for the
same purpose and "functionally perform the same function and
that is supporting a plurality of display elements and their
necessary wirings." According to the examiner (answer, page
5), "flexible substrates are considered as alternative
equivalent of regular hard circuit boards." The examiner
additionally relies upon Havel (id. at page 5) for a teaching
of modulating the width of a time series pulse for separately
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