Appeal No. 2000-0396
Application No. 08/527,886
display screen separate from said second portion of said display
screen." Thus, the two portions are separate.
Claims 67 and 68 recite that the process control information
is to be displayed in a process control window "reserved
exclusively" for process control information. If one portion is
"reserved exclusively," then the two types of information are
displayed in separate and predetermined portions of the screen.
Accordingly, claims 60, 61, 67 through 69, and 73 all recite in
one form or another that the two types of information are
displayed separately, or, rather, that the two display portions
are "dedicated." Therefore, claims 60, 61, 67 through 69, and
73, and their dependents, claims 62 through 65, include the
limitations of the original claims found by the examiner to be
lacking in the present claims. Consequently, we find that claims
60 through 65, 67 through 69, and 73 claim the same invention as
that disclosed in the original patent.
As to the remaining claims, appellant points out (Brief,
pages 9 and 10) that independent claim 6, as granted, recites an
alarm indication is "to be displayed only in a first
predetermined portion of said display means" and application
information is to be displayed in a second predetermined portion
of the display means to prevent process control information from
being overwritten by the application information. "Claim 6 does
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