Appeal No. 95-3270
Application 08/080,689
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 11, 13 through 16, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27 through 30, 37
through 46, 48 through 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 59, and 62. Claims 12
17, 23, 26, 31 through 36, 47, 52, 55, 58, 60, and 61, the only
other claims remaining in the application, are indicated by the
examiner as being allowed (Paper No. 24).
Appellants’ invention pertains to a typewriter, a self-
contained portable typewriting unit, and a typewriting method.
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading
of exemplary claims 1, 18, and 37, copies of which appear below.
1. In a typewriter: a keyboard panel having a
plurality of characters printed thereon in optically readable
form, a mouse movable about the keyboard panel and having means
for visually aligning the mouse with a selected one of the
printed characters, means for holding the mouse in a fixed
position relative to the character with which it has been
aligned, means coupled to the mouse for optically scanning the
printed character with which the mouse is aligned and providing
electrical signals which describe the scanned character as a bit
map, a printer which produces visual images on an output medium
by selective actuation of elements arranged in a matrix, and
means responsive to the electrical signals for actuating the
elements in the matrix in accordance with the bit map to form
an image of the selected character.
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