Appeal No. 95-4629
Application 07/831,953
Our study of the briefs and the answers leads us to
conclude there is an undercurrent of dispute between the
examiner and the appellant as to what the claims on appeal
really recite. Inasmuch as appellant's arguments focus only
upon the correction means clause of claim 1 on appeal and that
corresponding clause and the detecting means clause of
independent claim 5 on appeal, we focus upon these portions of
these respective claims. As alluded to by the examiner in the
answers, there is recited in each independent claim two
different conditions, each of which may be answered in the
affirmative or negative. The first question with respect to
claim 1 is whether an image is even displayed at all on a
window display area chosen by a coordinate data input device.
If this question is answered in the negative, there is no
correction means clause operative in the claim. Assuming it
is answered in the positive, there still may be no correction
means operative in the claim since the correction means clause
is merely for correcting a selective position of a window if
the window image "protrudes from the visible area of the
display." Thus, even if a window image is displayed in the
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