Appeal No. 2000-0150
Application 08/661,440
edit a prestored message, or compose a completely new message,
Specification at 10, 1. 14 to p. 11, 1. 22.
B. The claims
Claim 7, which is representative, reads as follows:
7. An apparatus for composing alphanumeric
messages comprising a display screen having displayed
thereon alphanumeric characters and data manipulation
tokens and a data entry device for selecting said
alphanumeric characters and said data manipulation
tokens.
Appellant treats claims 1-13 as standing or falling
together. Brief at 4.
Because the terms "token" and "data manipulation token" are
not defined in Appellants' specification,2 they will be given
their broadest reasonable constructions consistent with
Appellants' disclosure. In re Morris, 127 F.3d 1048, 1054, 44
USPQ2d 1023, 1027 (Fed. Cir. 1997). Appellants argument that
"[d]ata manipulation tokens, as that term is used by the
Applicant[s], are tokens or icons providing for the function of
allowing editing of data on the display" (Brief at 9) is
persuasive because it is consistent with the fact that "token" is
broadly defined as a symbol. See The American Heritage
2 We note that while the term "token" appears in the
specification (at 15-application, the phrase "data manipulation
token" does not.
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