Appeal No. 2004-1459
Application No. 09/170,156
e-mail mode, a news mode, a calendar mode and a browser mode.
The examiner cites COMDEX as suggesting a mobile information
system for a vehicle which includes these major functions. The
examiner finds that it would have been obvious to the artisan to
incorporate Zeinstra’s voice actuated control system with the
advanced features of COMDEX. The examiner notes that the system
of Zeinstra can be trained to recognize and activate these major
functions (answer, pages 3-6).
Appellant argues that the cited references do not teach
or suggest the feature of reconfigurable control elements within
the context of the appealed claims. Specifically, appellant
asserts that push button 20 of Zeinstra, identified as the
reconfigurable control element by the examiner, has a permanent
and singular function. Appellant notes that although Zeinstra
can be trained to recognized additional speech, there are no
reconfigurable control elements disclosed therein. With respect
to the claimed states of the electronic mail mode, appellant
argues that COMDEX is nothing more than a conceptual
advertisement and does not teach or suggest the states as recited
in claims 1 and 9 (brief, pages 9-14).
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