Appeal No. 1999-0155
Application 08/369,676
an issue raised below which is not argued in that court, even
of it has been properly brought here by reason of appeal is
regarded as abandoned and will not be considered. It is our
function as a court to decide disputed issues, not to create
them.”).
Analysis
At the outset, we note that the Appellants elect to have
claims 32, 34-37 and 39-41 all stand or fall together, see
brief at page 4.
We take claim 32 as representative of the group. The
Examiner gives a detailed explanation of the rejection at
pages 3-5 of the Examiner's Answer. The Examiner concludes,
id. at page 5, that "[g]iven the systems of Young et al. and
Marshall et al., a person having ordinary skill in the art
would have readily recognized the desirability of displaying
the electronic guide covering only a portion of the video of
the broadcast, so that a user can follow the broadcast program
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