Appeal No. 1996-1385
Application No. 08/006,139
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 4-12, 15-25 and 28-34,
which constitute all the claims remaining in the application.
Amendments after final rejection were filed on March 6, 1995
and May 2, 1995. Neither of these amendments was entered by
the examiner.
The disclosed invention pertains to a cursor
positioning device for a graphical user interface. Force
sensor means associated with an input switch means respond to
operator actuation and determine desired cursor movement by
the operator. A signal processing means provides differing
time response characteristics of the cursor movement depending
on whether a repositioning of the cursor or a dragging of the
cursor is input by the operator.
Representative claim 28 is reproduced as follows:
28. A graphic cursor positioning device comprising:
force sensor means responsive to operator actuation to
generate a first pair of cursor movement electrical signals,
each of the first pair of cursor movement electrical signals
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