Appeal No. 1998-0631
Application 07/957,990
not an "alarm means . . . for generating an alarm signal,"
as recited in claim 1. In connection with claim 24,
Appellant states that the annunciator apparatus is an
audiovisual alarm device, that it is disclosed that "[t]he
annunciation could be a sound or a light" (specification,
p. 8, line 5), and that "in order to provide an alarm, the
computer 17 of the ['Human Factor'] publication would have
to be modified, i.e., reconfigured to allow message means 15
or memories 41, 43 to become an audio or light alarm means
to warn the user" (Br18).
The Examiner relies (EA8) on his previous arguments in
Paper No. 20, paragraph 13. The Examiner concludes that
"alarm" is capable of a broad interpretation to mean an
"alert" or "warning," and that sound and light are only
examples of different kinds of alarms (OA14). The Examiner
finds "the 'prompting' or 'questioning' provided to a user
in the 'Human Factor' publication is considered to fall
within the realm of the claimed 'alarm means', since the
point of the 'prompting' or 'questioning' is to alert or
warn the keyboard user" (OA14).
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