Appeal No. 1997-1578
Application No. 08/212,292
Abstract which describes the use of a recirculating shift
register, is set forth at page 5 of the Answer as follows:
Therefore, one of ordinary skill in the art
having Sebestyen would readily find obvious
that the message in shift register store
of Newell et al could be realized in a
recirculation register or counter means.
The Young and Piguet references are added to the combination
as teaching the remote battery and coded push-button features,
respectively.
In response, Appellant’s arguments primarily center on the
alleged lack of teaching in any of the references of the
claimed recirculating precessing display. After careful review
of the applied prior art and, in particular, Sebestyen, the
primary reference relied upon for this feature, in light of the
arguments of record, we are in agreement with Appellant’s
position as stated in the Brief. Although the Examiner has
relied on an excerpt from the Abstract of Sebestyen which
discloses a recirculating shift register which enables the
precessing display feature, there is no description in
Sebestyen of a continuous scrolling of the displayed message
resulting in a continual message re-display as required by the
claims on appeal. To the contrary, our interpretation of
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