Appeal No. 1996-1385
Application No. 08/006,139
operation and a dragging operation. Edwards is cited as a
teaching that different mouse movements require different
amounts of time. The examiner concludes that it would have
been obvious to the artisan to use slower movement during
dragging and faster movement during repositioning in Straayer
based on the teachings of Edwards [id. page 5].
Appellants argue that Edwards merely measures the
amount of time it takes a blind person to perform different
mouse operations based on auditory signals. Appellants argue
that there is no suggestion in Edwards of automatically
varying the cursor speed according to either a cursor
repositioning operation or a dragging operation [brief, page
14]. The examiner responds that Edwards teaches that cursor
movement for a dragging operation is slower than for a cursor
repositioning operation.
The examiner also notes that Straayer suggests varying the
speed of cursor movement [answer, page 6].
We find ourselves in agreement with appellants.
Edwards’ findings that blind persons physically move a
pointing device at different speeds for different operations
has nothing to do with the automatic control of cursor speed
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