Appeal No. 96-1305
Application 08/188,629
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s2
final rejection of claims 10, 12 to 14 and 17 to 19. The
examiner has allowed claim 11 and has indicated that claims 20
to 22 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base
claim. Claims 1 to 9, 15 and 16 have been canceled.
Representative claim 10 is reproduced below:
10. A coordinate input device comprising:
a housing including a semi-spherical wall having a
concave surface located on a first side and a convex surface
located on a second side, said housing defining a plurality of
holes formed through said semi-spherical wall;
a plurality of cylinders, each of said plurality of
cylinders having a fixed end integrally connected to said
convex surface and a free end located on said second side,
each cylinder including a central passage extending from an
opening formed in said free end to one of said plurality of
holes;
a plurality of ball supporting members, each ball
supporting member being received in one of said central
passages of said plurality of cylinders such that a portion of
said ball supporting member extends from one of said holes,
and wherein an outer diameter of said each of said plurality
2The notice of appeal filed on May 15, 1995 does not
include claim 10. Since claim 10 is argued in the brief and
the entire prosecution history indicates appellants intend to
pursue this claim, we consider this omission to be
inadvertent.
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