Appeal No. 2006-0785
Application No. 09/683,531
affixed to a conventional data storage device” [column 11, lines
46-50]. Thus, Bloch specifically suggests that the disclosed
display mechanism could be adhesively attached to a floppy disk
in the same manner as conventional adhesive labels. Therefore,
in our view, Bloch specifically teaches an addressable display
used as a label as asserted by the examiner.
With respect to appellant’s argument that Albert fails to
teach an addressable display usable as a label having the
features recited in claims 1 and 10, this argument is
unpersuasive because Bloch teaches the features of the display
recited in claims 1 and 10. Albert is cited only to show the
advantages of a bistable display and provide the motivation for
modifying the display of Bloch to be a bistable display. Albert
teaches that a bistable display consumes no power [column 2, line
22] and can be used in applications where paper is currently the
display medium of choice [column 7, lines 14-16]. Since Bloch’s
display is intended to replace a conventional paper label, and
since Albert teaches that replacing paper labels with a bistable
display conserves power, we agree with the examiner that the
artisan would have been motivated to modify the Bloch display to
use bistable elements so that power would be conserved as taught
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