Appeal No. 95-0175
Application 07/894,147
acted on. However, where the object with respect to which the
menu choices are related is already selected, as is the case in
Aguro, it would have been obvious to one with ordinary skill in
the art in light of Hernandez to display the menu choices in an
abutting relationship to the corresponding object, i.e., the
inscribed handwritten character or a representation thereof. It
reflects merely a straight forward application of Hernandez’s
teaching of proximally locating the menu choices to the
corresponding object. We agree with the examiner that in light
of Hernandez it would have been obvious to one with ordinary
skill in the art to modify Aguro so that the candidate character
display area abuts the inscribed character display area.
The appellants have grouped claim 18 with claim 1 (Br. at
11) and claim 8 with claim 6 (Br. at 12).
For the foregoing reasons, the rejection of claims 1, 6, 8,
10 and 18 is sustained.
Claim 2 depends from claim 1 and specifically requires that
there be a plurality of input character display areas and a
candidate character display area for each input character display
area. The appellants argue (Br. at 10-11) that nothing in the
applied references reasonably suggest a candidate character
display area for each of a plurality of input character display
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