Appeal No. 96-3624
Application No. 08/293,104
for displaying, on the membrane, positional and functional
indicia and having electrical connections for addressing
display elements to be illuminated.
Similarly, the applied references do not make the subject
matter of independent method claim 44 obvious since none of
these references suggests the functions of the claimed
programmable display membrane. Moreover, with regard to claim
44, we find no suggestion by the applied references, and the
examiner has pointed to nothing therein, of the claimed
“displaying...at continuous locations including locations
between keys as well as overlying keys not used to effect the
currently desired function.”
We have not sustained the rejection of claims 36 through
39 and 44 under 35 U.S.C. 103 but we have sustained the
provisional rejection of these claims under the doctrine of
obviousness-type double patenting in view of appellant’s lack
of argument on this issue.
Accordingly, the examiner’s decision is affirmed.
No time period for taking any subsequent action in
connection with this appeal may be extended under 37 CFR
§ 1.136(a).
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