Appeal No. 2001-1602
Application No. 08/973,003
standard telephone keypads by substantially increasing its number
of keys as well as by re-arranging the key layout, so as to
provide generation of alpha-characters by depressing exactly two
adjacent keys. As such, we cannot sustain the Examiner's
rejection of claims 1 and 7 as being unpatentable under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 in view of Danish and Prame.
In view of the foregoing, the decision of the Examiner
rejecting claims 1 and 7 and dependent claims 2-6 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 is reversed.
REVERSED
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MICHAEL R. FLEMING ) APPEALS
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PARSHOTAM S. LALL )
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