Appeal No. 1999-0595
Application 08/704,186
Ishii does not fully meet the claimed invention. Although the
examiner asserts that appellants have not identified any
limitation of the claimed invention which is not disclosed by
Ishii, it is clear that appellants are arguing the last
displaying step or means of independent claims 1, 3 and 5.
The claimed invention requires that an additional week of the
calendar be displayed on the screen in addition to said
specific month [claims 1 and 3] or continued to the displayed
calendar [claim 5]. These underlined portions of the claimed
invention require that at least one more week be added to the
display without losing the month that was previously
displayed.
We agree with appellants that Ishii does not disclose
this operation. In reading the claimed invention on Figure 15
of Ishii, the examiner has interpreted the detecting step of
claim 1 as being met by the scrolling keys of Ishii. The
examiner simply asserts that the final displaying step of
claim 1 is fully met by Ishii when the calendar of Figure 15
is scrolled [answer, page 4]. As pointed out by appellants,
however, Ishii specifically discloses that operation of the
cursor keys in Figure 15 causes the display to scroll up or
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