Appeal No. 95-4589
Application 08/042,888
This being the case, we will not sustain the rejection of
claim 11 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph.
Turning to the rejection of claims 1-3, 5-8, 11, 12, 14-
16 and 18-20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
McComb in view of Forrest and Swanson, the answer states that:
McComb discloses an electric illuminating
display device which is comprised of a housing, a
central primary lighting element (15, page 2, column
1, lines 44 to 45, figure 1, and the light source in
the center, figure 7) which may continuously
illuminate (also page 2, column 1, lines 42 to 45),
and a plurality of groups (2 to 14, figure 1 and 22
to 24, figure 7) of secondary lighting elements (17)
with one group of secondary lighting elements
surround[ing] another group of secondary lighting
elements. McComb further discloses that the housing
includes a translucent face (29, page 2, column 2,
lines 85 to 87) which lies over the primary and
groups of secondary lighting elements in a plane
perpendicular to a direction of light emitting from
the primary and groups of secondary lighting
elements. McComb also shows that central portion of
this translucent face overlies the central primary
lighting element, and a plurality of color[ed]
elements may overlie the groups of secondary
lighting elements (page 1, column 2, lines 65 to
66). These groups of secondary lighting elements
may also be comprised of different colors (page 1,
column 2, lines 63 to 64) to provide different color
of light intensities. McComb additionally discloses
circuit means (thermo flashers) to energize the
primary and groups of secondary lighting elements.
[Pages 3 and 4.]
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