Appeal No. 1998-0876
Application 08/269,703
Vassigh is not located in a housing different from the housing
containing the processor. Figure 16 shows the buttons on the
touch screen display during the payment process; it does not
show a card reader and certainly does not show a card reader
within the first portion housing. Figure 1 appears to show a
card reader (unnumbered) in the terminal device 20 at the
upper right hand corner of the sloping front face, but this is
not part of the first portion of the display.
Claims 5 and 6 recite that "the first and second keypads
in combination perform a predetermined function in a plurality
of ways." This goes to the disclosed concept of
"multi-pathing" (e.g., specification, p. 2, lines 3-5; p. 5,
last para.). Appellants argue that Vassigh discloses three
types of buttons, but does not disclose more than one way that
these buttons can be used to perform a predetermined function
(Br10). The Examiner finds that this limitation is disclosed
in Vassigh and points to the three different kinds of buttons
in figure 9 that Appellants argued did not meet the claim
limitations (EA9). The Examiner does not answer Appellants'
argument, and gives no example of a function that is performed
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