Appeal No. 96-2372
Application 08/278,676
Before STONER, Chief Administrative Patent Judge, and ABRAMS and
FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judges.
FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 3 and 5 through 26. Claim 4 has
been canceled.
Appellants' invention relates to an apparatus for the
interactive handling of objects, such as electronic documents and
tools in a computer workstation environment. More particularly, 2
as noted in the paragraph bridging pages 2 and 3 of the
specification, an objective of the invention is to provide an
apparatus
whereby the menu of options is displayed and
whereby movements on or by the pointer device
2As indicated on page 1 of the specification, within the
frame of the present application, tools (such as those neces-
sary to copy, transmit, store, etc. documents and sets of data),
documents, and the necessary supplemental executable programs
and data are indicated with the general term "objects." Other
kinds of objects are, for example, programs emulating a
calculator, agenda, calendar and telephone directory or
communication equipment, as a telephone or fax.
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