Appeal No. 2000-0396
Application No. 08/527,886
not require, however, that the first and second predetermined
portions of the display means be mutually exclusive." Thus,
appellant concludes that the claims are directed to the same
subject matter as the original claims.
We agree that original claim 6 does not require dedicating
two fixed display screen portions for both application and
process control data. Original claim 6 recites two predetermined
portions wherein the process control data portion is displayed
only in one of the predetermined portions. However, nothing in
claim 6 precludes the application data from also being in the
first predetermined portion, except for the recitation that the
application data is to be displayed to prevent process control
information from being overwritten by the application
information.
Claim 48 recites "reserving a screen portion," and claim 72
recites "reserving a predetermined screen portion," for the
process control information. Claims 52, 58, 59, 66, and 71 each
recite that the alarm indication is displayed on a "first
predetermined portion" (for claims 52 and 66) or merely on a
"predetermined portion" (for claims 58, 59, and 71). Then, each
of claims 48, 52, 58, 59, 66, 71, and 72 recites displaying the
application information such that it does not overwrite or bury
the alarm indication displayed or cause the alarm indication to
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