Ex Parte Boehler et al - Page 3




             Appeal No. 2006-2736                                                          Page 3              
             Application No. 10/038,167                                                                        


                          a display unit connected to said imaging system and supplied with                    
                   said image data for displaying an image containing said object dependent                    
                   on said image data; and                                                                     
                          said imaging system allowing influencing of the display of said                      
                   image on said display unit by a plurality of different control functions                    
                   respectively uniquely associated with different predetermined movement                      
                   directions of said mouse, said input device having a detector which                         
                   detects a movement of said mouse in one of a said plurality of                              
                   predetermined directions and said imaging system selecting the control                      
                   function uniquely associated with said one of said plurality of said                        
                   predetermined directions detected by said detector, to alter the display                    
                   of said image on said display unit.                                                         

                   Claims 1-4 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over U.S.               
             Patent No. 5,954,650 ("Saito") and U.S. Patent No. 6,461,298  ("Fenster").  Claim 5               
             stands rejected under § 103(a) as obvious over Saito; Fenster; and U.S. Patent No.                
             6,725,215 ("Yamamoto").  Claim 6 stands rejected under § 103(a) as obvious over                   
             Saito; Fenster; and U.S. Patent No. 6,259,382 ("Rosenberg").  Claims 7 and 8 stand                
             rejected under § 103(a) as obvious over Saito; Fenster; and U.S. Patent No. 6,601,055             
             ("Roberts").                                                                                      


                                                 II. OPINION                                                   

                   "When multiple claims subject to the same ground of rejection are argued as a               
             group by appellant, the Board may select a single claim from the group of claims that             
             are argued together to decide the appeal with respect to the group of claims as to the            








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