Appeal 2007-3554
Application 09/887,602
Anderson US 5,463,724 Oct. 31, 1995
Kate Barnes, “10 Minute Guide to Windows 3.1,” Alpha Books, 60 to 64
(1992).
Microsoft Press, “Getting Results with Microsoft Office 97”, 169 to 181,
(1997), (hereinafter, Office).
The Examiner rejected claims 1 to 12 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) based
upon the teachings of Anderson, Barnes, and the Office publication.
Appellant contends that the applied references do not teach or suggest
the steps of claim 1.
ISSUE
Does the applied prior art teach or would it have suggested to the
skilled artisan all of the steps set forth in claim 1?
FINDINGS OF FACT
Anderson describes an electronic spreadsheet with cut, copy, and
paste buttons 221 in tool bar 220 that are used for persistently self-
replicating multiple ranges of cells through a copy and paste operation in a
multidimensional spreadsheet (Figures 2A, 2B, and 4G to 4J; col. 7, ll. 25 to
32; col. 10, l. 58 to col. 11, l. 5). The spreadsheet comprises a plurality of
cells having content and identified by a cell address along each dimension
(col. 1, ll. 63 to 65; col. 8, ll. 16 to 19). A range of cells can comprise one
cell or a plurality of cells (col. 1, ll. 63 to 65; col. 9, ll. 51 to 65). Anderson
can define a set of ranges of cells with each range of cells having the same
size. At least two of the ranges can have different addresses relative to the
top leftmost cell A1 of the respective page on which each of the said ranges
are located (Figure 2C; col. 8, ll. 11 to 19; col. 9, ll. 51 to 65). Each time the
content of a range of cells belonging to a set is changed, Anderson
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