Appeal No. 2003-0037
Application 09/924,681
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 4 through 13, 16, 17 and 19 through 22 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Verrier in view of Takahashi.
Claims 2, 3, 14 and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Verrier in view of Takahashi
and Yoshimura.
Attention is directed to the appellant’s main, supplemental
and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 18, 20 and 24) and to the examiner’s
answer (Paper No. 23) for the respective positions of the
appellant and examiner regarding the merits of these rejections.
DISCUSSION
Verrier, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses a
stylus 20 for use with a digitizing display 22 in a pen-based
computer system. The stylus 20 comprises a writing end
contacting portion 38 and an erasing end contacting portion 38'
having similar constructions. As shown in Figures 2A and 2B,
each end contacting portion includes a longitudinally
displaceable tip 4, 4' for making mechanical contact with the
digitizing display, an antenna 29, 29' for picking up
electromagnetic positional signals from the digitizing display, a
pressure transducer 10, 10' for sensing the pressure with which
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