Appeal No. 1997-2149
Application No. 08/019,666
Appellants contend (Reply Brief, page 2) that Reiser's message
cannot be changed once the message is selected. Once again we
look to the claims, and we find no requirement that the
message be changeable once selected. The claims merely recite
that the individual must be able to enter a message via the
keyboard. As claimed, such entry could be only once, when the
message is initially selected. Therefore, the claims do not
require that the user be able to change the message.
As to the last element of the claims, although Reiser
states (column 3, lines 51-52) that electrical power is
supplied to the computer and the display from a power supply
such as the vehicle battery, Reiser does not mention a DC to
AC converter. The examiner applies Katogi to show that DC to
AC power converters are well-known in the art "for supplying
AC power from the existed [sic] DC power supply to an
accessory" (Answer, page 3). The examiner concludes,
therefore, that it would have been obvious to use a well-known
DC/AC converter to supply power from the vehicle battery to
the display.
Appellants (Brief, pages 5-6) contest the combinability
of Katogi with Reiser. We agree that Katogi does not provide
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