Appeal No. 98-3292
Application 08/611,848
the scope and content of the claimed subject matter be fully
understood prior to the application of prior art thereto.
Accordingly, we direct our attention to appellants’
independent claims 1, 6, 12 and 18 to derive an understanding
of the scope and content thereof. More particularly, we look
to the specification and drawings of the application in an
effort to understand the recitation in independent claims 1,
6, 12 and 18 relating to the limitation that the various sets
of keys defined in these claims are all “integrally formed on
one contiguous key pad.” In addition, we also look to
appellants’ disclosure to derive an understanding of the
recitation in each of the claims on appeal relating to certain
sets of keys of the keypad “residing on a first plane,” and
another set of keys of the keypad being set forth as “residing
on a second plane.”
With regard to the recitation that the sets of keys in
each of the claims on appeal are “integrally formed on one
contiguous key pad,” it is apparent from a review of
appellants’
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