Appeal No. 1997-1131
Application No. 08/395,119
Cir. 1992). Since, in our view, the Examiner’s line of reasoning
does not establish a prima facie case of motivation, the
Examiner’s 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claims 19 and 20 is not
sustained.
Rejection under 37 CFR § 1.196(b)
We make the following new ground of rejection using our
authority under 37 CFR § 1.196(b) relying on the following prior
art:
Stano et al. (Stano) 4,797,864 Jan. 10, 1989
Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Stano. Stano illustrates in the upper right
portion of Figure 3 a seven segment display in which the display
elements can be selectively illuminated to form various digits as
described in the accompanying description at column 7, line 53
through column 8, line 32. All of the limitations of Appellant’s
claim 1 are disclosed by Stano since elements 212 and 210 form a
first box and elements 214 and 216 form a second box, each with
border defining elements. As described in the above referenced
portion of Stano, the display elements are selectively
illuminated or darkened to jointly define and form digits. For
example, if all of the elements are illuminated, the numeral “8"
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