Appeal No. 1998-0883
Application 08/498,570
Claims 1, 3, 5, and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Usami.2
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 6) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 9) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the
Examiner's position and to the Appeal Brief (Paper No. 8)
(pages referred to as "Br__") for a statement of Appellant's
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
The two issues are whether Usami teaches or suggests:
(1) "means for generating clock signals having phases that
deviate from one another sequentially by 1/8 of a period of
a dot reference clock signal"; and (2) "means for selecting
one of the generated clock signals for each color on a
scanning line basis so as to produce the respective assigned
screen angles and to cause differences among initial phases
for the respective colors" (emphasis added). Claim 7 is
similar to claim 1 except that it is a method claim and is
The statement of the claims on appeal and the2
rejection lists claims 1, 3-5, and 7 (Examiner's Answer, pages
2 and 5). However, since claim 4 has been canceled, the
Examiner apparently meant to refer to claims 1, 3, 5, and 7.
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