Appeal No. 2005-1997 Page 6
Application No. 09/493,319
free to select a single claim from each group of claims subject to a common ground of
rejection as representative of all claims in that group and to decide the appeal of that
rejection based solely on the selected representative claim." Id., 63 USPQ2d at 1465.
Here, the appellant stipulates that "claims 50-52 and 54 can be grouped together.
With this grouping, all claims of a particular group stand or fall together." (Appeal Br. at
6.) We select claim 50 from the group as representative of the claims therein.
"With this representation in mind, "[r]ather than reiterate the positions of the
examiner or the appellant in toto, we focus on the point of contention therebetween." Ex
parte Kaysen, No. 2003-0553, 2004 WL 1697755, at *2 (Bd.Pat.App & Int. 2004). The
examiner finds, "Nishida's teaching is that a single memory may support a groups of
related pixels, such as the red, green, and blue pixels shown in Nishida, figures 8 and
10, rather than just a single pixel." (Examiner's Answer at 4.) He asserts, "This will
reduce cost and complexity because, instead of one memory for only one pixel, there
would be one memory for a group of related pixels. Over a display, this would reduce
the space required by the memory elements and increase the space for the light
producing pixel elements." (Id.) The appellant makes the following arguments:
. The problems and solutions that are presented in Nishida relate to
reducing the possible cost associated with the mass production of
individual display units do not apply to the integrated display structure that
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