Appeal No. 95-1423
Application 07/928,883
REJECTIONS UNDER § 103
I. Claims 40, 41, 61, 64-66, 68, 69 and 76-77 stand rejected
over Nopp in view of Havel. As an initial matter, we must
interpret the scope of the claims prior to considering whether
they would have been obvious in view of the prior art. See
Rockwell Int’l Corp. v. United States, 147 F.3d 1358, 1362,
47 USPQ2d 1027, 1029 (Fed. Cir. 1998) (“The first step in any
invalidity or infringement analysis is claim construction.”).
Claim 61 is directed to a character display unit
comprising a picture memory, color transforming means which
performs cross- color mapping according to a color look-up
table, display means, wherein the color transforming means is
controllable in a first and second state. In the first state,
the color transforming means maps “two of said respective hues
on a single destination hue,” and in the second state it maps
“two of said respective hues on at least two respective
destination hues.”
Claim 69 differs from claim 61 in two ways: (1) no color
look-up table is claimed; and (2) the “cross-color mapping” of
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