Appeal No. 2000-1711
Application 08/808,870
Claims 1-29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Metroka, Indekeu, and Zabarsky.
We refer to the final rejection (Paper No. 6) and the
examiner's answer (Paper No. 13) (pages referred to as "EA__")
for a statement of the examiner's rejection, and to the appeal
brief (Paper No. 11) (pages referred to as "Br__") and reply
brief (Paper No. 14) (pages referred to as "RBr__") for a
statement of appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Grouping of claims
The claims are grouped as follows (Br5): (1) claims 1,
3-12, 15-25, 28, and 29, stand or fall together with
representative claim 1; (2) claim 2 stands or falls alone; and
(3) claims 13, 14, 26, and 27 stand or fall together with
representative claim 13.
Claims 1, 3-12, 15-25, 28, and 29
Metroka discloses a data entry device for a keyless
electronic device, such as a cellular telephone in the preferred
embodiment of figure 1. Metroka discloses that the input device
may be used by other electronic devices too small to use a normal
keypad, including pagers (col. 8, lines 32-37). The device has a
display 106 having an alphanumeric section 202 for displaying the
alphanumeric characters entered by a user and a menu section 204
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