Appeal No. 09/938,479 Page 3
Application No. 2003-2047
not sustain the examiner’s rejection.
The examiner relies on Louis for disclosing a chart recorder
including a housing having multiple movable arms. The examiner
acknowledges (final rejection, page 3) that Louis does not
disclose:
“a backing plate installed in the housing,” “a
digitizer mounted in the housing, the digitizer having
a digitizing grid: and a respective digitizer
detectable element mounted on each movable arm,” as
stated in claim 8.
The examiner (final rejection, page 3) refers to Rodgers for
disclosing a digitizing system with a grid for determining the
position of a pen, the pen having a pen tip extending through a
coil and a communication link to transmit position data.
According to the examiner (answer, pages 3 and 4), it would
have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time
of the invention to furnish Louis with a backing plate configured
for mounting a digitizing grid together with the grid and a pen
tip extending through a coil for each arm based on the teachings
of Rodgers. The examiner finds a suggestion for this
reconstruction of the chart recorder of Louis based on
description of prior art in Rodgers at column 1, lines 20-25
wherein it is noted that it is known in the prior art that
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