Appeal No. 95-3673
Application 07/935,762
odometer and rpm meter per se and not of any other circuit
elements of Figure 1 of this reference. This entire testing
action of this reference requires the use of the special final
test mode device depicted in Figure 2. Thus, the testing action
here is not intended to test, for example, by the scanning action
of the respectively identified 3 displays, the analogue-to-
digital converter 14 in Figure 1, whose test mode has been
identified in a different portion of this reference to be tested
in a manner by representing only a numeric output as discussed at
column 5, lines 52 through 64.
We do not agree with the examiner’s belief that the blinking
action indicated as an alternative display approach at column 2,
lines 37 through 42, of Bruggemann would have indicated to the
user or artisan a corresponding sweeping action of the type
recited in each independent claim on appeal.
As to independent claim 13, we recognize that there is no
repetitive sweeping action of the meter required by this claim.
However, it is noted that the compare operations of Bruggemann
are not taught to exist in the context of a plain sweeping
action-type of display as required by independent claim 13 on
appeal. As to independent claim 21, Bruggemann’s teachings do
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