Appeal No. 1997-0403
Application 08/174,215
failed to establish a prima facie case of obviousness. The
rejection of claims 4, 8, and 9 is reversed.
Claims 5-7
Kato is applied to teach increasing the speed of a
cursor if the cursor key is continuously depressed. We find
that Kato does not cure the deficiencies of Franz with
respect to the rejection of parent claim 4. Accordingly,
the rejection of claims 5-7 must be reversed.
Claim 11
Appellants argue that the rejection of claim 11 should
be reversed for the reasons set forth with respect to
claim 4 (Br13). The Examiner does not make any comments.
Claim 11 does not contain the same limitation about
"unmodified keys" as claim 4 and, thus, we cannot rely on
the same reasons as claim 4.
However, claim 11 recites "said keyboard controller
responsive to the special function key, when active, to
interpret signals from other ones of said selected keys and
generate mouse data packets, wherein said signals provided
by said selected keys to said keyboard controller when said
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