Appeal No. 2003-0357
Application 09/123,307
the argument that there is no verbose mode taught in Basic PC 97
[reply brief].
We will not sustain the examiner’s rejection of
independent claims 1, 7, 16 and 25-27. Basic PC 97 discloses
that the system, by default, displays a clean BIOS startup
screen. This default condition and the fact that the clean BIOS
startup screen can be turned off and on might reasonably suggest
to the artisan that Basic PC 97 has a non-clean startup or
verbose startup screen as well. Therefore, we are not convinced
that Basic PC 97 has only a clean mode as argued by appellants.
Nevertheless, we agree with appellants that the buffering
technique taught by Engstrom does not meet the limitations of the
appealed claims. As argued by appellants, the display device in
Engstrom always outputs the contents of the front buffer. The
contents of the buffers are flipped to ensure that the front
buffer always points to the contents to be displayed. The
examiner has failed to respond to this argument. Even if Basic
PC 97 was determined to have two modes, and even if the two modes
were stored in the two buffers of Engstrom, of which there is no
suggestion, the display device in Engstrom would still only
display the contents of the front buffer rather than the contents
of two buffers in the manner claimed.
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