Appeal No. 1998-3379
Application No. 08/724,088
suggestions. In re Sernaker, 702 F.2d 989, 995, 217 USPQ 1, 6
(Fed. Cir. 1983). "Additionally, when determining
obviousness, the claimed invention should be considered as a
whole; there is no legally recognizable 'heart' of the
invention." Para-Ordnance Mfg. v. SGS Importers Int'l Inc.,
73 F.3d 1085, 1087 37 USPQ2d 1237, 1239 (Fed. Cir. 1995),
cert. denied, 519 U.S. 822 (1996), citing W. L. Gore & Assoc.,
Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1548, 220 USPQ 303, 309
(Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).
Appellants argue on pages 4 and 5 of their brief that
Etoh does not teach displaying the results of said computation
in a first graphical display on said graphical screen in
response to said detected changes in said input represented by
said graphical element, each result of said computation
comprises a graph of a set of points, one of said points
corresponding to each of said time periods wherein one
coordinate of each of the points is determined by the computed
results of that point, the computed results depending on that
point and said input values, said coordinate representing a
balance in an account. Appellants point out that the bar
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