Appeal No. 2000-1363
Application No. 08/848,374
Therefore, Harada teaches away from the claimed invention, and we
cannot sustain the rejection of claim 8.
Claims 10 and 18 recite changing the settings to one of a
plurality of presets. However, neither reference discloses
plural presets nor selecting from plural presets. Therefore, we
cannot sustain the rejection of claims 10 and 18.
As appellant points out (Brief, page 11), claim 15 recites
“changing the configuration settings stored on the memory to the
changes most recently made upon a mismatch of the configuration
settings with the changes most recently made." As explained
supra with regard to claim 8, Harada teaches changing the
configuration setting to the changes most recently made upon a
match and searches previous configuration settings when there is
a mismatch of the configuration setting with the changes most
recently made. Therefore, Harada teaches away from the claimed
invention, and we cannot sustain the rejection of claim 15.
Claim 17 recites querying the user whether the configuration
settings should be reset to the configuration settings of the
current configuration file. However, as argued by appellants
(Brief, page 11) Harada automatically resets (without user
interaction) to the configuration settings of the current
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