Appeal No. 94-1490
Application 08/135,833
(b) Kobayashi in view of any one of Kaufman, Hahn, and
DeAguiar.2
The Canon article discloses a desktop workstation with
facsimile capability that includes a display device and a
keyboard having an UNDO key that "Undoes a function" (see
penultimate page). No other information about UNDO key operation
is disclosed. The examiner contends it would have been obvious
to program this UNDO key to perform functions performed by other
known function keys, including an "End" key, which causes the
cursor to move to the last displayed character position, a
"Delete" key, which removes the character displayed at the cursor
position, and a "Space Bar" key, which allegedly will cause the
cursor to move "back" one character position (Answer at 4-5).
Why the examiner states that operation of the Space Bar key will
cause the cursor to move back one character position is not
understood. Operation of a Space Bar key typically moves the
cursor forward one character position at a time, whereas
operation of a Backspace key moves the cursor back one character
2In the final Office action (at 4) the examiner
additionally rejected claims 1, 3-7, and 9-12 under § 103 as
unpatentable over references to Ishii and Chen. This ground of
rejection was not repeated in the Answer and is therefore treated
as withdrawn.
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