Appeal No. 97-1277
Application No. 07/820,261
As we noted above with respect to claim 13, any baseball
scorekeeping device must permit the entry of player names and
the entry of event information. Peters suggests the use of a
switch which can adjust the mode of data being input into the
device. Thus, the idea of broadly using the same input
elements to enter two different kinds of data would have been
obvious in view of the teachings of Peters and the common dual
mode keys of conventional calculators.
Appellant also argues that a means for associating
event data entered in the processor with the name of the
player who was at bat at the time that the event occurred is
not suggested by the applied prior art. We are not persuaded
by this argument since the baseball fan would have realized
that events of a game such as balls and strikes must be
associated with the player who is at bat. The modified Peters
device would have to have this capability in order to create
an accurate record of a baseball game.
Although we have found many of appellant’s arguments
with respect to claim 23 to be nonpersuasive, we do agree with
appellant that the recitation of a program means for
suspending the game mode and switching to the substitute
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