Appeal No. 97-2886 Application 08/441,493 in the unsolved area of the game board and reappeared in their final position in the solution area of the game board. See Figures 4, 5 and 8 through 12 of the application drawings for a showing of the respective paths (136, 140, 142, 144). To address this difference between the known previous version of the anagram game REVELATION™ and appellant's claimed apparatus, the examiner urges that the recited movement of characters is "considered to be old and well known to the 'drag' modes known on computer interfaces" (answer, page 3). In addition, the examiner points to the teaching in Cunningham of arcade games (col. 1, line 13) and the teaching at column 1, line 38, of Cunningham, and concludes that To have provided computer outlines in "a path of predetermined plurality of points" with a "means for moving" as required by claim 1 would have been obvious to provide a more easily understood interface. On page 5 of the answer, the examiner also points to the "File Manager" applications in Windows, urging that "[i]cons of the files can be directly 'dragged' from on [sic, one] disk drive to another along a path of a predetermined plurality of points" 5Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007