Appeal No. 1998-3379
Application No. 08/724,088
first graphical display on said display screen in response to
said detected change in the input value represented by the
graphical element, said results of said computation comprising
a graph of a set of points, said coordinate representing a
balance in an account as recited in Appellants' claim 1.
Therefore, we will not sustain the Examiner's rejection of
claims 1 through 3 for these above reasons.
In view of the foregoing, the decision of the Examiner
rejecting claims 1 through 3 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is
reversed.
37 CFR § 1.196(b)
A new ground of rejection of claims 1 through 3 under
35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, is entered under 37 CFR
§ 1.196(b).
Analysis of 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, should
begin with the determination of whether claims set out and
circumscribe the particular area with a reasonable degree of
precision and particularity; it is here where definiteness of
the language must be analyzed, not in a vacuum, but always in
light of teachings of the disclosure as it would be
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