Appeal No. 2004-0324
Application 09/387,350
to the subject matter generally set forth in the body of
independent claim 1 on appeal. The argued features there also
are present in slightly different terminology in the remaining
independent claim 17.
As characterized by appellant, the disputed language in
representative claim 1 on appeal is the feature that prior to
the user inputting text into the text entry field, a plurality
of mouse selectable text entry options are displayed. There
appears to be no dispute between the examiner and the appellant
regarding the teachings of the two references to Black and NET
that both teach the same "AutoComplete" feature of Internet
Explorer 5. More specifically, there is no dispute that these
references do not teach displaying mouse selectable predefined
entries before a user inputs data into a text entry field as
required by the claims on appeal. The examiner recognizes this
in the statement of the rejection at page 4 of the answer and
again at page 11 of the answer in the Responsive Arguments
portion thereof. From our perspective and study of both Black
and NET, it is clear that the user must enter some limited number
of information such as by typing for the so-called AutoComplete
feature to be effective and become operable once activated. This
requirement is most explicitly indicated at both pages of NET.
4
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007