Ex parte LEMELSON - Page 2




                     Appeal No. 2000-2232                                                                                                                                              
                     Application 08/483,928                                                                                                                                            


                     image signals, and still images on hard copies .  In                                               1                                                              
                     particular, the portable unit (figure 2, item 10) comprises a                                                                                                     
                     hand-held,  box-like housing (figure 2, item 11) supporting a                                                                                                     
                     camera (figure 1, item 32), a video recorder and reproduction                                                                                                     
                     device (figure 1, item 24), a video-signal display unit                                                                                                           
                     (figure 1, item 27), and a printer (figure 5, item 80;                                                                                                            
                     specification, page 26). The portable unit also includes a                                                                                                        
                     manually operated selection switch     (figure 5, item 82)                                                                                                        
                     which couples either the camera output or the video recorder                                                                                                      
                     and reproducer output to the video-signal display unit, and a                                                                                                     
                     manually operated printing trigger (figure 5, item 80c).                                                                                                          
                                Independent claim 21 is reproduced as follows :                                                  2                                                     
                                21.  A portable video unit comprising:                                                                                                                 
                                (a) a hand-held, box-like housing supporting:                                                                                                          
                                (i) a camera having an output for electrical video                                                                                                     

                                1 Specification, page 1, lines 2-5.                                                                                                                    
                                2 We note that the copy of claim 28 in Appellant's                                                                                                     
                     Appendix A is incorrect as it does not contain the changes                                                                                                        
                     made in Appellant's Amendment C (paper no. 9).  In                                                                                                                
                     subparagraph (c) of this claim, at line 1 the words "manually                                                                                                     
                     operated" are not deleted, and the words "by a camera                                                                                                             
                     operator" are not inserted after the word "activated".  Our                                                                                                       
                     decision considers this claim as presented in Amendment C and                                                                                                     
                     not as set forth in Appellant's Appendix A.                                                                                                                       
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