Appeal No. 2001-1602
Application No. 08/973,003
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellant or the Examiner, we
make reference to the brief1 and the answer2 for the details
thereof.
OPINION
We will reverse the rejection of claims 1-7.
With regard to independent claims 1 and 7, Appellant argues
that Danish does not disclose that only the depression of exactly
two mutually adjacent keys will generate an alpha-character. See
Brief, page 4, lines 17-19. Appellant argues that since only
some of the Danish's alpha-characters are generated using two
keys, Danish does not disclose a keyboard where an alpha-
character is always and only generated by depressing two mutually
adjacent keys. See Brief, page 5, lines 7-8 and 14-17.
The Examiner argues that the Danish keyboard could be
modified by one of ordinary skill in the art to allow all the
alpha-characters to be generated using two adjacent keys. The
1 Appellant filed an Appeal Brief on October 20, 2000. We
will refer to this appeal brief as simply the Brief. Appellant
filed a reply brief on April 9, 2001. We will refer to this
reply brief as the Reply Brief.
2
2 The Examiner responded to Appellant's Appeal Brief on
February 9, 2001. We will refer to this answer as simply the
Answer.
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