Appeal No. 1999-2068
Application 08/650,038
On pages 5 and 6 of the Appeal Brief (hereinafter
"brief"), Appellants assert that the Examiner does not provide
any indication of any suggestion or motivation to make the
modification and combination of the cited references from
within the references themselves, and the Examiner is not
entitled to rely on Appellants' disclosure or claims to
provide the necessary motivation to modify the teachings of
the prior art or to make a combination of the references.
In addition, Appellants argue that both Yano and 5
Fujisawa teach away from the Examiner's proposed combination.
Firstly, as to Yano, Appellants assert that Yano discloses6
that the primary object of his invention is to provide a touch
screen device where switches are displayed directly on a touch
screen. Therefore, if one were to modify the teachings of
Yano and separate the activation switches from the display
screen, that would defeat the very object of Yano.
Secondly, as to Fujisawa, Appellants argue that the
Fujisawa system is taught to operate only when the vehicle is
5Brief, pages 6-9.
6Column 1, line 56 through column 2, line 19.
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