Appeal No. 1998-3064 Page 4
Application No. 08/445,867
for selecting one of the segment drive circuits and providing
address data for writing/reading data to/from said relative
address and for providing/receiving display data only to/from
the selected segment drive circuit; and
a processing unit connected to the common drive
unit for providing said input data including display
data and address data and for receiving output data
read from the display unit.
The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:
Mano et al. 4,985,698 Jan. 15,
1991
Koyama 2,224,873 May 16,
1990.
(UK Patent Application)
Claims 2 and 4-12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as obvious over Koyama in view of Mano. Rather than repeat
the arguments of the appellants or examiner in toto, we refer
the reader to the briefs and answer for the respective details
thereof.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we considered
the subject matter on appeal and the rejection and evidence
advanced by the examiner. Furthermore, we duly considered the
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