Appeal No. 97-1277
Application No. 07/820,261
for entering player names and events into the processing
means. For reasons discussed above, any electronic baseball
scorekeeper for the avid fan must permit the entry of player
names (the lineup) and events which take place such as balls
and strikes. The second means of claim 41 recites that the
processor means associates events with the player who was at
bat. We considered the obviousness of this feature in our
discussion of claim 23 above. Finally, the third means of
claim 41 recites a means for visually indicating the name of a
player and an event which occurred while the player was at
bat. This feature is the whole point of a baseball scorecard
and would clearly have been included in any scorekeeper of
Peters which is modified to be a complete and accurate
baseball scorekeeper. Therefore, we find that each of the
means of claim 41, as broadly recited therein, would
necessarily be present in any electronic baseball scorekeeper
created by the avid baseball fan. For purposes of the breadth
of claim 41, Peters alone and the knowledge of the baseball
fan are sufficient to suggest the claimed invention.
Therefore, we treat Klose as being unnecessary and cumulative
to the teachings of Peters and the knowledge of the baseball
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