Appeal No. 2003-0037
Application 09/924,681
examiner entered an answer (Paper No. 23), noted a reply brief
(Paper No. 24) filed by the appellant and forwarded the
application to this Board for review of the new rejections.
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to “an input pen for use in a pressure
sensitive handwriting input unit” (specification, page 1).
Representative claim 1 reads as follows:
1. An input pen for use in a pressure sensitive handwriting
input unit, comprising:
a pen cylinder having a front end and a read [sic, rear]1
end;
a front input member disposed on said front end of said pen
cylinder and having an input portion used for input operations,
said front input member being made of a synthetic resin; and
a rear input member disposed on said rear end of said pen
cylinder and having an input portion used for input operations,
said rear input member being made of an elastic material softer
than said synthetic resin.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
rejections on appeal are:
Verrier et al. (Verrier) 5,475,401 Dec. 12, 1995
Takahashi et al. (Takahashi) 5,638,093 Jun. 10, 1997
Yoshimura 5,850,059 Dec. 15, 1998
1 The above noted informality in claim 1 is deserving of
correction upon return of the application to the technology
center.
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