Appeal No. 1997-3823
Application No. 08/320,782
mailed November
20, 1996, Paper No. 21, the examiner withdrew rejections of
claims 9, 10, 12, 13, 17-19, 21-24, 35, 36, 39-43, 45, 55 and
56 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 and indicated that such claims
contain allowable subject matter. In addition, the examiner
has provided new grounds of rejection to claims 9 and 44
under 35 U.S.C. § 112 and claims 46-51 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Appellants amended claims 8, 10, 12, 17, 18, 35, 44 and 55 to
overcome ambiguities and to write the claims in independent
form in the Reply Brief, received on January 21, 1997, Paper
No. 23. The Examiner summarized the status of the claims in
the Supplemental Examiner’s Answer, mailed April 23, 1997,
Paper No. 24. Claims 8-10, 12, 13, 17-19, 21-24, 35, 36, 39-
45, 55 and 56 are indicated as being allowable over the prior
art. Therefore, the Appeal of those claims is hereby
dismissed. Claims 1-7, 11, 14-16, 20, 25-34, 37, 38, 46-54,
57-59 and 62 remain rejected and are the claims before us on
appeal. Claims 60 and 61 have been canceled.
Appellants’ invention relates to a head mounted display
system that is modular such that various components of the
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