Appeal No. 97-1277
Application No. 07/820,261
argues several features of this claim are not obviously
suggested by the prior art. Appellant argues that manually
operable elements for field position and events create a
highly advantageous data entry capability. Although we find
that Peters suggests such event keys to the avid baseball fan,
we agree with appellant that the manually operable elements
dedicated to a given field position are not suggested by the
prior art. This recitation of claim
13 means that there are nine keys whose sole function is to
indicate entry of one of the defensive positions. Since a
baseball scorecard normally indicates defensive positions by
numbers 1 through 9, these defensive positions could easily be
entered by standard, nondedicated number keys. Although the
use of dedicated field position keys enables data to be
entered more easily by the novice fan, such advantage is
apparent only from appellant’s own disclosure. There is no
suggestion in Peters or in the conventional scoring of a
baseball game that would have suggested the obviousness of
these dedicated keys.
The examiner apparently relies on Klose as overcoming
this deficiency of Peters. We agree with appellant that the
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