Ex parte TRAINOR et al. - Page 8




                Appeal No. 95-2631                                                                                                            
                Application 07/950,402                                                                                                        


                another by each of independent claims 1, 8 and 10.   The                            4                                         
                examiner’s views to the contrary are based on a hindsight reading                                                             
                of the references, in our view.  This constitutes an additional                                                               
                reason necessitating reversal of the examiner’s rejection of                                                                  
                claims 1-5, 8 and 10.                                                                                                         
                         Turning to claims 6, 7 and 9, as with claims 1-5, 8 and 10,                                                          
                each of these claims also requires a display for displaying only                                                              
                a portion of the system’s user settable operating parameters, and                                                             
                the step of and/or means for selecting parameters for displaying                                                              
                on a display screen by activating a menu portion of the input                                                                 
                means.  We have carefully considered the Morrison reference                                                                   
                additionally relied upon by the examiner in rejecting these                                                                   
                claims but find nothing therein which makes up for the                                                                        
                deficiencies of Kinoshita and Yoshiura noted above.  Accordingly,                                                             
                we also cannot support the examiner’s rejection of these claims.                                                              



                         4Claim 1 calls for “said apparatus being constructed so                                                              
                that . . . any parameter in said second category can be selected                                                              
                for display on said display means by activation of said menu                                                                  
                navigation portion,” claim 8 calls for the step of “activating                                                                
                the menu navigation portion to select for display only a portion                                                              
                of less than the whole of the parameters in the first or second                                                               
                category,” and claim 10 calls for the step of “selecting for                                                                  
                display on the display device a portion of less than the whole of                                                             
                operational parameters . . . by actuating menu navigation keys                                                                
                which cause the portion of operational parameters to be scrolled                                                              
                through the display.”                                                                                                         
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