Appeal No. 95-4356
Application 08/133,821
have been suggested by the graphical user interface of
Fleming. Therefore, we sustain the rejection of claim 16 as
unpatentable over the teachings of Fleming, IBM and the IBM
Guide.
We now consider the rejection of independent claims
17, 20 and 24 as unpatentable over the teachings of Fleming,
IBM, the IBM Guide and Berry. Appellants argue that each of
claims 17, 20 and 24 recites the display of an action submenu
in response to selection by the user of a designated object.
The examiner has cited Berry to teach the display of an action
submenu. Appellants argue that the help screen display of
Berry is not an action submenu as claimed.
On this latter point, we agree with appellants. The
help screens of Berry are merely informational and do not
offer the user action choices. Claim 17 recites that the
action submenu has a list of selectable actions. The help
screens of Berry clearly do not have selectable actions.
Claims 20 and 24 simply recite the display of action submenus
in response to selection of a designated object. An action
submenu can broadly be defined as a menu which offers the user
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