Appeal No. 2002-0880
Application No. 09/183,214
the program number “106" “on the three thumbwheel dials 21, 22 and 23.” See
Winkler, column 3, lines 32 through 40. Thus, Winkler teaches an input device for
obtaining input from an operator defining a first product model identifier from a plurality
of product model identifiers as recited in Appellants’ claim 8.
Furthermore, we find that Winkler suggests to those skilled in the art the need to
identify to the operator, the product model identifier so that the operator can properly
select the particular SEM. This suggestion is found by Winkler’s teaching that the
tester is designed to test a plurality of different electrical modules, (SEM) and that the
operator must select from a plurality of different SEMs and be able to properly input the
information so that the system can be set up to test the selected SEM. See column 3,
lines 32 through 40 and column 3, lines 51 through 68.
Bald teaches a way in which the set up procedures for testers may be automated
by providing a display which displays a plurality of menus from which the operator may
select from the menu, the proper parameters for the test. See, Bald, column 11, lines
25 through 67. From these teachings, Bald would have suggested to those skilled in
the art to use the Bald’s concept of using menu driven displays in the Winkler system to
allow the operator to view a plurality of different standard of electrical modules for
selection of the proper interface board, tape number and program number to initiate the
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