Appeal No. 1999-2251
Application No. 08/546,897
Claims 4 through 8 and 23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Giokas.
Reference is made to the final rejection (paper number 7),
the answer (paper number 14), and the brief (paper number 13)
for the respective positions of the examiner and the appellants.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will sustain the 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection of claims 4
through 8 and 23.
The examiner indicates (answer, pages 3 and 4) that Giokas
discloses an information sending unit that comprises “1)
extracting means (a function of CCLIENT 340) for extracting an
information item to which state information indicating the
information item is to be sent has been added by a sending
information specifying unit (X client), from information items
processed in a first information processing system (X),” and “2)
sending means (a function of CCLIENT) for sending the
information extracted to a predetermined communication system
(interclient communication facility of the PM server, which is
the PM CLIPBOARD) at column 6 lines 18-21, also at column 7
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