Appeal No. 1997-1584
Application No. 08/353,375
Appellants’ arguments in response, aside from a general
assertion at page 11 of the Brief, do not attack the
combinability of Saki and Kimura but, rather, focus on the
assertion that neither reference discloses the region
selection operation as claimed. In particular, Appellants
assert that, contrary to the claimed invention in which an
analog signal invisibly scrolls through pages not visible
under a visible top page, Saki, the primary reference relied
upon for this feature, provides a visible indication of the
location of a page to be selected.1
After careful review of the Saki and Kimura references in
light of the arguments of record, we agree with the Examiner’s
position as stated in the Answer. We note that the relevant
portion of representative independent claim 1 recites:
wherein a first region overlapped by a
second region at said point such that
there is no visible indication of said
first region is selectable by said region
selecting means; . . .
We agree with the Examiner’s analysis that Saki’s Figure
1In attempting to distinguish over the Saki reference,
Appellants’ arguments at pages 11 and 12 of the Brief use the
terminology “pages” rather than “regions” as claimed.
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