Appeal No. 1998-0641
Application 08/354,158
jewel box 10 having set according to digital dial switches 14 a
combination to unlock the lock. In accordance with the operation
of the overall device in Figure 3, the wrist watch 1 transfers
optically this same encoded information for comparison in the
jewel box 10. The RAM 23 in Figure 4 of the system of Figure 3
permits the user to enter not only the respective data items by
name, which have an electronic lock associated with them but
also, at the same time, a so-called encrypted code associated
therewith for each item stored. Functionally, this occurs in
accordance with the teaching beginning at column 16, line 5.
The examiner appears to have misconstrued this teaching and
showing in Karasawa in that the data item JEWEL of Figure 4 has
entered associated with it the unlocking code of 0425 to unlock
the jewel box 10 of Figure 2, where the same code is depicted
there with the key switches 14 associated with the jewel box
itself. The numerical value of 0425 does not represent, in the
context of Karasawa's teachings, an encrypted, encoded, converted
or scrambled representation of the word “jewel.” A similar
observation can be made with respect to the other separate items
listed in Figure 4 of Karasawa. We recognize that, in accordance
with some teachings in different modes of Karasawa, the word
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