Appeal No. 2004-0297
Application No. 09/265,451
data bus 38. Otherwise, parallel data supplied from
data bus 38 is converted into serial data and output to
the terminal equipment through contact section 3 [column
2, line 31, through column 3, line 47].
Danielson discloses a pocket-size computer processing system
which includes, among other features, a touch sensitive display
(see, for example, element 17 in Figure 2).
Hale discloses a pocket-size personal terminal for
performing a variety of financial and other transactions on-line.
The terminal possesses the capability of generating a “review
history trail” which displays a record of earlier transactions
(see page 9 and Figure 5).
The manner in which the examiner applies Tamada, Danielson
and Hale to reject claims 48, 50 through 63, 66 through 72 and 74
through 82 appears in the final rejection and answer, while the
appellant’s position to the contrary appears in the briefs. As
the appellant’s arguments frame the issues for review, we shall
evaluate the rejection of each of the contested claims in the
order argued in the main brief.
Claim 48
The appellant submits that the rejection of claim 48 is
unsound because (1) Tamada relates to conventional transactions
involving paper slips rather than electronic transactions of the
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