Appeal No. 2000-0968 Page 12
Application No. 08/629,484
specific way (brief, page 13). Appellants specifically state
that the invention utilizes a series of storage registers for
keeping track of, for each trace, “the display parameter settings
for the signal (if any) initially displayed on that trace, as
well as the setting for the signal (if any) displayed on the
other trace” (id.).
We are unpersuaded by the Examiner’s arguments (answer, page
6) which are limited to a general statement of what Moriyasu
teaches. The Examiner merely refers to “memory means” of
Moriyasu that are used for “storing the digitized data so that
the acquired signal could be displayed in linear, logarithmic or
other manner”. It is not clear from the Examiner’s position
which specific memory elements in Moriyasu store display format
parameters when the freeze mode is entered. Additionally, based
on our review of the reference, we find that the linear,
logarithmic or other display formats are virtually pre-set
display formats used for plotting the obtained data and not
parameters that are stored when the freeze mode is entered (col.
9, lines 3-7). From all of the above, we find that the examiner
has not provided a convincing line of reasoning to support any
correspondence between the teachings of Moriyasu and the claimed
“display format parameters”.
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