Appeal No. 96-3561
Application No. 08/045,241
and external memory means to store graph data and character
data, so as to provide more information to a computer system”
[answer-page 3].
We agree with the examiner, concerning claim 1, in that
the telephone graphic icons of Hayden must be stored in a
memory and the artisan would have understood that Hayden has a
memory means to store such graphics even if not explicitly
shown or disclosed.
Appellants argue that there is nothing in Hayden which
would have suggested “that the shape of the icon be changed to
reflect the actual overall appearance of the telephone in a
given state” [brief-page 8]. We disagree. While we
understand appellants’ argument to the extent that the
disclosed preferred embodiment shows the icon to be
representative of a facsimile machine and that when the phone
is off the hook on the actual machine, that situation is also
shown by the icon, when the phone is on the hook on the actual
facsimile machine, that is also depicted by the icon, etc., we
believe the actual claim language is broad enough to cover
what is disclosed by Hayden.
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