Appeal No. 96-3304
Application 08/279,565
matter on appeal and recites:
1. A machine readable display unit for metered devices
of the type displaying a changeable, readable indicia
proportional to an input thereto, said input varying in
relative value over a period of time, said machine readable
display unit comprising:
means for displaying alpha-numeric indicia in a machine
readable format;
means for changing said readable indicia responsive to
the input to the metered device.
THE REFERENCES
The following references were relied on by the examiner
in support of the rejections:
Becker et al. (Becker) 4,588,949 May 13,
1986
Munday et al. (Munday) 4,977,368 Dec. 11,
1990
Wakatsuki et al. (Wakatsuki) 5,278,551 Jan.
11, 1994
(filed April 16, 1993)
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1-9 and 11-22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Becker in view of Wakatsuki.
Claims 10 and 23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Becker in view of Wakatsuki as applied
to claims 1-9 and 11-22 above, and further in view of Munday.
Rather than reiterate the examiner’s full statement of
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