Appeal No. 1996-2369 Page 11
Application No. 08/191,723
display data from CPU (107) and arithmetic (111).”
(Examiner’s Answer at 12.) We agree with the appellants.
The examiner errs in interpreting the scope of claim 3.
The claim 3 recites more that “a loop counter means for
storing operation number data input from the control means.”
(Examiner’s Answer at 12.) Independent claim 3 specifies in
pertinent part the following limitations:
a loop count register means for storing operation
number data input from the control means, said
operating number data being the number of repeated
logical operations to be sequentially performed by
said column drive means, and display control data
memory means responsive to said operating means and
said loop count register means for storing display
control data for updating the display address of the
display data representing the result of said logical
operations.
Giving the claim its broadest reasonable interpretation, the
limitations recite a loop count register for storing a count
of the number of times a repeated logical operation is to be
sequentially done by a column drive means.
The examiner fails to show a teaching or suggestion of
these limitations in the prior art. As aforementioned, the
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