Ex parte SHINOTSUKA et al. - Page 13




          Appeal No. 1997-1665                                      Page 13           
          Application No. 08/289,134                                                  


          Representative claim 1 specifies in pertinent part the                      
          following limitations: "in response to said feature portion of              
          said coordinate data, a preselected command is performed to                 
          change a display condition of said line segment or said                     
          character."  Giving the claim its broadest reasonable                       
          interpretation, the limitations recite changing the display of              
          a character in response to the features of the coordinate                   
          data.                                                                       


               Capps would have suggested the limitations.  The                       
          reference teaches changing the display of a character.                      
          Specifically, "the selected word object W (as seen in FIG. 6b)              
          is replaced with                                                            
          the word chosen from the correction list.  For example, if a                
          user selected the word 'bore' from the correction list C of                 
          FIG. 6a, the word 'bore' would replace the word 'more' of FIG.              
          6b."  Col. 10, ll. 17-22.  Capps also teaches that the display              
          of a character is changed in response to the features of the                
          coordinate data.  Specifically, the correction list is                      
          generated based on the word object W.  Col. 8, ll. 41 - col.                
          9, l. 27.  As aforementioned, the word object W was generated               







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