Appeal No. 2004-1578
Application No. 09/204,837
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Beeteson et al. (Beeteson) 5,877,745 Mar. 2, 1999
(filed May 2, 1995)
Claims 1 through 13, 16 and 17 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by Beeteson.
Reference is made to the supplemental brief and the answer
for the respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will sustain the anticipation rejection of claims 1
through 13, 16 and 17.
We agree with the examiner’s findings (answer, pages 3 and
4) that Beeteson discloses an input/output device for a computer
system 10. Appellants’ arguments (supplemental brief, pages 4
and 5) to the contrary notwithstanding, the input/output device
in Beeteson is comprised of a pointing device/mouse 40 (Figures 1
and 4), and a display device 20 (Figures 1 through 3) that
includes memory/buffers 26 and 27 and a controller 25. The
controller 25 in Beeteson, like the disclosed and claimed
controller, is operably connected to the memory and to the
pointing device/mouse 40. The controller 25 is capable of
transferring data from the pointing device/mouse to the computer
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