Appeal No. 1998-0631
Application 07/957,990
105 USPQ 233, 235 (CCPA 1955) ("[W]here the general
conditions of a claim are disclosed in the prior art, it is
not inventive to discover the optimum or workable ranges by
routine experimentation."). Appellant has not shown that
the claimed values and ranges are unexpected or would not
have been determined by routine experimentation. For the
reasons stated above, the rejection of claims 14-16, 45-47,
114-116, and 138-140 is sustained.
We recommend that the Examiner apply the Rempel
article, Fingertip Forces While Using Three Different
Keyboards, in combination in any future prosecution. Rempel
discloses that the forces on a keyboard can cause chronic
musculoskeletal disorders and measures key forces squarely
within the claimed range, which suggests the claimed range
of threshold values. Note that Rempel also discloses
measuring the forces on index, middle, ring, and pinkie
fingers of the left and right hands (p. 254); thus, Rempel
discloses measuring pressure signals for regions (e.g.,
claim 3).
Not argued - claims 12, 25, 118, 210, and 211
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