Appeal No. 1996-4148
Application No. 08/327,085
of the icon . . ., . . . rotating the pages around the axis
within the icon to change the subset of pages . . . ." Thus,
Appellant's claim 18 requires arranging the pages into a three
dimensional icon with the pages attached to a common axis in
the middle of the carrousel, and the rotation of the pages
around the axis within the icon to change the subset of pages.
The Examiner's citation of column 1, lines 31-35 of
Kreitman et al. as a basis for the statement that an icon
which depicts a file folder is an example of the carrousel
element of claim 1, is not well taken. As this disclosure by
Kreitman refers only to icons which depict a file folder, it
is devoid of any statements or indications that a carrousel
carries the icon, and clearly
provides none of the specific carrousel and page structure
recited in claim 1.
The Examiner's assertion that changing from a polygon
shape (or any other shape) into a carrousel would have been
obvious to one skilled in the art at the time the present
invention was made because a carrousel can fulfill the
rotation function more effectively fails to show why the
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