Appeal No. 1998-1320
Application No. 08/305,643
admitted prior art at page 1 of Appellant’s specification.
This admitted prior art, illustrated in Appellant’s Figure 1,
describes plural segmented digit displays for representing
alphanumeric characters and further includes indicator display
components for displaying the status of various system
operational parameters, but lacks a teaching of utilizing
predetermined ones of the alphanumeric display segments for
representing the system operational parameters. To address
this deficiency, the Examiner turns to Null which discloses
plural segmented digital displays for a radio in which
predetermined ones of the segments that make up each display
are utilized to represent other operational parameters of the
system as illustrated in Figures 5A-5D of Null. In the
Examiner’s view (Answer, page 4), the skilled artisan would
have found it obvious to incorporate Null’s feature of
utilizing various segments of a segmented numeric display for
representing other system parameters in the system of the
admitted prior art in order to eliminate the need for separate
operational status indicators.
The Examiner further adds the Digi-Key reference to the
combination of the admitted prior art and Null as providing a
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