Appeal No. 2000-0829
Application 09/079,054
The examiner’s rejection and the applicant’s arguments
12. In the final rejection, the examiner relies on Taylor
to teach all of the recited features in independent claims 1, 14,
and 18, except for displaying a list of options that can affect a
selected lighting device upon selection of the lighting device as
follows:
Taylor et al fail to clearly teach the determining
information about a selected lighting device and displaying
a list of options that can affect a selected lighting device
upon selecting of the option. However, implementation of
displaying multi-level list of options associated with a
selected object is well known. It would have been obvious
to one of ordinary skill in the art, at the time the
invention was made to implement the displaying list of
options associated with a selected object to [the] Taylor
lighting system. Motivation of the implementation is for
providing a menu contextually associated to the selected
lighting device. In light of the rejection set forth above
the storing information about the devices would have been
obvious so that the contextual menu can be implemented.
(Emphasis added) (Final rejection at 3).
13. The applicant argues that the Taylor reference does not
teach or suggest a menu of options as claimed or storing data as
defined in the claims as follows:
The final rejection states that “implementation of the
displaying multi list of options associated with a selected
object is well known”. However, it is respectfully
suggested that this statement is based on hindsight; not on
what Taylor teaches. Taylor does not teach a menu of the
type defined according to the claimed invention, nor does he
teach storing the kind of data defined as being stored in
the memory according to the present claims.
The present claims define that the memory stores
“information representing a plurality of lighting devices
and lighting effects that can be produced by said lighting
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