Appeal No. 95-4809
Application 08/104,251
cursor positioning device from controlling a position of said moveable cursor to controlling
both a scale and a segment of said data field . . . wherein said cursor positioning device
performs a dual function." Further, claim 1 sets forth controlling parameters "according to
movement of said cursor positioning device" and "wherein sustained movement of said
cursor device . . . continuously increases [decreases] said scale" and "controlling which
segment of the data field is displayed according to movement of said cursor positioning
device in a second axis."
It is clear that the claimed invention controls the manipulation of the data through the
movement of the cursor positioning device and that the cursor positioning device must be
"remapped" prior to the manipulation of the data. The specification defines remapping at
page 11. The specification states :
"In the currently preferred embodiment, the mouse not only controls a
cursor position on a display screen, but it can also be made to control two
different parameters. The way in which this is accomplished is by
'remapping' the mouse's axes from controlling the x and y-axes cursor
movements to, instead, controlling two parameters. When an axis is
remapped to a parameter, motion in that axis no longer moves the cursor.
Instead, it controls the parameter.
By disassociating the axis of the mouse from the cursor, the mouse
movement is not constrained by the edges of the display screen." (See
specification at page 11.)
We have reviewed the rejection set forth by the Examiner in the answer at pages 3-
5 and the response to the arguments that the Examiner has made at pages 5-6 of the
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