Appeal No. 96-3561
Application No. 08/045,241
external character memory region is independent of a character
code memory region of the memory means, and the examiner’s
rationale never comes to grips with that claimed relationship.
Accordingly, the examiner has not established a prima facie
case of obviousness with regard to independent claim 6.
Similarly, in claim 7, there are recited two memory
means, one of which memorizes a part of a pattern in each
operation mode and the other memory memorizes another part of
the pattern representing the appearance of the processing
system as an external character code data. It is not enough
for the examiner merely to contend that it would have been
obvious to have a memory means and an external memory means
“so as to provide more information to a computer system”
because claim 7 requires more than a mere provision of extra
memory. In this case, the first memory memorizes a part of a
pattern and the second memory means memorizes another part of
that same pattern and the display is based on a composite
graphic image. This goes to the idea of the divided graphic
data which appellants employ in order to update the display
rapidly since only a portion of the total graphic data to be
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