Appeal No. 97-1277
Application No. 07/820,261
combination of Klose with Peters, as proposed by the examiner,
makes no sense. Klose simulates a baseball game being played
so that there is a simulated baseball field permanently drawn
on the display. The display also has several defensive
positions indicated by permanently drawn characters (see
outfield, pitcher and catcher). Klose also has display
elements at strategic parts of the simulated field to indicate
movement within the baseball game. It should be noted that
Klose teaches no dedicated field position input elements. To
the extent that Klose teaches anything related to a field
position, Klose teaches output elements rather than input
elements. There is nothing in Klose which would have
suggested the obviousness of the claimed dedicated field
position manually operable elements.
Appellant also argues that the manually operable
alphabet elements and the five modes for the processor means
are not suggested by the prior art. With respect to the
alphabet input elements, we do not agree. The conventional
manually created scorecard clearly has an area for and
requires the input of the various player names in the lineup.
The artisan would have appreciated that an electronic baseball
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