Appeal No. 2001-2003
Application 08/939,185
of the entertainment system data represented and the actual name
of a program presents specific data related to that generic trait
or category.
The subject matter of independent claim 55 is anticipated
by Lopresti, at least to the extent argued at pages 12 and 13 of
the principal brief on appeal and the reply brief beginning at
page 7. As to this claim, we note initially that appellants
present no arguments that the data engine and the graphical query
interface features of claim 55 are not taught or suggested in
Lopresti at page 13 of the principal brief on appeal. As to the
remaining data parser feature, appellants recognize at the bottom
of page 7 of the principal brief on appeal that Lopresti's remote
control device parses the handwritten symbols traced on the
remote control pad. This is repeated at page 13 of the principal
brief on appeal. Appellants' argument that Lopresti's symbols,
such as the hand-drawn symbols by the user, are associated with
channels and not with programs is misplaced since the claimed
feature of the data parser relates only to broad entertainment
system data associated with an entertainment selection and
not with channels or programs. Still, a broadly defined
entertainment selection clearly could be a channel or a program.
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