Appeal No. 2001-1352
Application 08/802,828
made, that all the features of the claimed invention, namely,
the pointing vector generating means clause of representative
independent claim 1 on appeal is not taught or suggested. We
agree.
The examiner's reasoning relies entirely upon Bissonnette
for this feature. His voice activated personal organizer is
shown in Figure 2 to include an edit key which is unnumbered.
Furthermore, we recognize that in accordance with the abstract,
for the different functions attributed to this device, the user
may have the ability to edit them by eliminating or correcting
the data entered or entering new data. It appears that this
latter feature of entering new data is considered by the examiner
to be analogous to the claimed inserting feature.
According to the architecture of Bissonnette's device in
Figure 1, the DRAM 22 stores the data. This memory is discussed
briefly in the paragraph at the middle of column 6 and more
extensively beginning at the bottom of column 7 through the end
of column 8. We do not agree with the examiner's views as to the
teachings at column 8 that Bissonnette teaches or otherwise
suggests to the artisan within 35 U.S.C. § 103 the data
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