Appeal No. 2002-2012
Application No. 08/953,707
guide based upon the number of characters in the program guide. See page 5 of
appellants’ specification.
Claim 26 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:
26. A method for a display, the method comprising:
displaying a program along with an electronic program guide (EPG) on the
display;
automatically resizing text describing the displayed program to fit in a fixed
sized window on the display, the resizing of the text is dictated by the amount of
text; and
displaying the text within the fixed sized window.
References
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Alten et al. (Alten) 5,781,246 July 14, 1998
(filed May 20, 1994)
Torres 5,001,697 March 19, 1991
Rejection at Issue
Claims 26 through 49 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Torres in view of Alten. Throughout the opinion we make reference
to the briefs1 and the answer for the respective details thereof.
1Appellants filed an appeal brief on August 20, 2001 (certified as being deposited on
August 14, 2001, in accordance with 37 C.F.R. § 1.8(a)) and appellants filed a
“Response to an Examiner’s Answer” which we consider to be a Reply brief on January
8, 2002 (certified as deposited filed on November 9, 2001, in accordance with 37
C.F.R. § 1.8(a)).
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