Appeal No. 1997-0403
Application 08/174,215
The Examiner disagrees, stating (EA7): "Grant teaches
mouse movement keys (2,4, 6, 8) move a cursor in up, down,
left and right direction on a display (see Grant's figure 7)
and cursor movement data is part of mouse data because a
mouse can control the movement of cursor on a display." The
Examiner also states (EA7): "[I]t is well known that a
computer will convert the scan code of cursor keys (2, 4, 6,
8) into X- and Y-coordinate data to control the movement of
a cursor. The cursor movement data is part of the mouse
data."
The Examiner's position is untenable. While the term
"cursor" can be used to refer to a movable, visible mark
that represents the position for character entry during a
keyboard entry mode and for a graphical pointer during a
pointing mode, the arrow keys 2,4, 6, 8 are cursor control
keys which, as is well known, move a cursor from one line to
another or from one character to another during a keyboard
entry mode--they do not control the pixel-by-pixel location
of a pointer and do not provide mouse data. Grant discloses
a cursor control device for a pointing device as unit 146 in
figure 8, but this does not use conventional keys. We agree
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