Appeal No. 95-3270
Application 08/080,689
In reaching our conclusion on the issues raised in this
appeal, this panel of the board has carefully considered
appellants’ specification and claims, the applied patents, and
the respective viewpoints of appellants and the examiner. As a
consequence of our review, we make the determination which
follows.
We reverse the respective rejections of appellants’
claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
For the more specific reasons delineated, infra, our
assessment of independent claims 1, 13, 18, 21, 30, 37, 48, 53,
59, and 62, in particular, and the applied prior art, reveals to
us that the subject matter of these claims would not have been
suggested to one having ordinary skill in the art on the basis of
the evidence of obviousness before us.
Each of the examiner’s rejections is founded upon the
basic combination of the Johnson and Toyoda patents.
The applied patent to Johnson, also cited in
appellants’ specification (page 2), addresses a keyboard assembly
(typewriter) wherein a character selection mechanism 28
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