Appeal No. 2000-0963
Application No. 08/736,883
means for performing said editing operation on said selected
portion of said displayed data; wherein the operability of said
editing operation is independent of the location of said selected
portion of said displayed data, and said editing operations include
line-wrapping of the script and ASCII characters entered on the
unlined display when the one particular data structure is a text
data structure.
The examiner relies on the following references1:
Forcier (Forcier ’649) 5,220,649 June 15, 1993
Forcier (Forcier ’698) 5,231,698 July 27, 1993
Claims 1 and 89-91 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, for failing to particularly point out and
distinctly claim the invention. Claims 1, 57-59, 62-84 and 86-104
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the
teachings of Forcier ’649. Claim 20 stands rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the teachings of Forcier
’649 and Forcier ’698.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the
examiner, we make reference to the briefs and the answer for the
respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on appeal,
the rejections advanced by the examiner, the arguments in support
1 The examiner’s answer cites an additional reference to
Sato et al., but the incorporated final rejection does not refer
to this reference anywhere in the rejection.
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