Appeal No. 2004-1578
Application No. 09/204,837
and 15 as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would
be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of
the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims
(answer, page 4). Accordingly, claims 1 through 13, 16 and 17
remain before us on appeal.
The disclosed invention relates to an input/output device
for a computer system that includes a pointing device, memory and
a controller operably connected to the pointing device and the
memory. The controller operates to transfer data from the
pointing device to a computer system, and to send and receive
data to and from a computer.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. An input/output device for a computer system,
comprising:
a pointing device for generating an electrical signal
encoding pointer spatial information and command information;
memory for storing machine readable data; and
a controller operably connected to said pointing device and
said memory, wherein said controller is capable of transferring
data from said pointing device to a computer system, and wherein
said controller is further capable of sending and receiving data
to and from a computer.
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