Appeal No. 1998-2864
Application No. 08/338,235
The lamps 23a and 23b of Kobayashi, albeit, arguably, “displays”
of an alarm condition, do not, in any way, act to display
selected-parameter measurement data which has been retrieved from
memory in the control console.
With regard to claims 6 and 15, the examiner relies on Crane
for the teaching of a radio system that has memory to store
information received from another processor at another location.
The examiner then contends that the artisan would have recognized
the desirability of storing pluralities of information in
Kobayashi’s memory so that the information can be retrieved
locally. With regard to the limitation of a memory to store
measurement data in which the measurement data of a selected
parameter is selected by the operation of a keypad, the examiner
asserts that this claim limitation “lacks criticality” [principal
answer-page 8].
Even if we assumed that the examiner’s application of
Kobayashi and Crane is reasonable, we will not sustain the
rejection of claims 6 and 15 under 35 U.S.C. 103 because the
examiner may not dismiss an explicit claim limitation by stating
that it “lacks criticality.” As explained by appellant [page 12
of the principal brief], this feature enables an operator of the
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