Appeal No. 2006-0785
Application No. 09/683,531
bistable display device. The examiner finds that it would have
been obvious to the artisan to modify Bloch’s display label to be
a bistable display as taught by Albert [answer, pages 3-8].
Appellant argues that the claimed invention is directed to a
label having certain claimed features whereas Bloch teaches these
features incorporated directly on or in a housing of a floppy
disk. Appellant asserts that Bloch does not disclose, suggest or
contemplate a label of any type having the claimed features.
Appellant also argues that Albert fails to disclose or suggest an
addressable display usable as a label for recordable media and
having the claimed features [brief, pages 9-12].
The examiner responds that Bloch and Albert both teach a
display that is usable as a label. The examiner reiterates that
Bloch teaches all the features related to the claimed label and
that Albert teaches the advantages of a bistable display device
[answer, pages 8-13].
Appellant responds that Bloch teaches a specially-designed
floppy disk housing rather than the display label as claimed.
With respect to independent claims 9 and 18, appellant
additionally argues for the first time that Bloch fails to
disclose the claimed user configurable pattern electrodes.
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