Appeal No. 1999-1045
Application No. 08/651,759
now being allowed and claims 3, 42, 43, 45, 50, 51, 53, and 55
now being objected to as dependent upon a rejected base claim but
allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the
limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a platform for a hand-
controllable data input device used with a microprocessor and an
operator’s extremity associated with controlling the data input
device, and to a platform for a hand-operated pointing device
used with a microprocessor and an operator’s appendage associated
with controlling the pointing device. A basic understanding of
the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1
and 44, copies of which appear in the APPENDIX to the brief
(Paper No. 17).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:2
2 The examiner has listed five references on pages 3 and 4
of the answer (Paper No. 18), however, we have only included
herein those documents applied by the examiner in the rejections
now before us.
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