Appeal No. 1998-0641
Application 08/354,158
We reverse.
As most succinctly stated at page 3 of the principal brief
on appeal as well as the top of page 4 of the reply brief, the
subject matter of the independent claims 1, 6, 10 and 18 on
appeal is that confidential information is displayed to the user
in encrypted form. In somewhat an awkwardly worded manner, the
displaying function of this converted confidential data in
independent claim 1 on appeal is stated to occur only after the
actual confidential data has been converted into a different data
using a code converter when the electronic apparatus as a whole
is set in a confidential mode. Claim 6 requires the displaying
of the converted data. Claims 10 and 18 both require displaying
scrambled data.
Assuming for the sake of argument that it would have been
obvious within 35 U.S.C. § 103 to have separately combined each
of the two WordPerfect teachings relied upon by the examiner with
Karasawa, the subject matter of each independent claim on appeal
would not have been met by the combination.
In accordance with the general password teachings of the two
WordPerfect documents relied upon by the examiner as well as the
password teachings of Karasawa, conceptually, password protection
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