Appeal No. 2000-0968 Page 14
Application No. 08/629,484
freeze mode (brief, page 14). Additionally, Appellants point out
that the single frozen waveform of Moriyasu is derived from a
single trigger event and does not suggest reconfiguring a
compound waveform derived from multiple trigger events (brief,
page 15).
The Examiner responds to Appellants’ arguments by stating
that the combined teachings of the references would have
suggested the claimed invention to those of ordinary skill in the
art (answer, pages 6 & 7).
From our review of prior art, we remain unpersuaded by the
Examiner’s assertion that different engine sweeps in live mode,
as disclosed by Jonker and Appellants’ admitted prior art, would
have suggested to one of ordinary skill in the art reconfiguring
a frozen screen display format to reconfigure a frozen screen
display format in the manner recited in the claim. The
Examiner’s reliance on Jonker and admitted prior art is misplaced
since both discuss different types of sweep only in live mode.
Based on our analysis of Moriyasu, as discussed above with
respect to claim 1, we find that the reference displays sampled
and digitized data according to various pre-set time base scales.
Moriyasu provides no teachings related to reconfiguring a frozen
screen display format in freeze mode, let alone changing the
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