Appeal No. 94-3636
Application 07/889,660
formed of areas 81a for storing broad sort names such as a primary menu, areas 81b for storing
detailed sort names such as a secondary menu, and areas 81c for storing retrieval items (column 3,
lines 35-45). Information is retrieved by an operator as shown in figure 6 (where the lower boxes 42-
45 represent screen displays) in a manner that corresponds to information retrieval in a file cabinet
(column 4, lines 29-42). Registration (initial storage) of information in the system is described, in
part, as follows (column 6, lines 47-51, referring to figure 12): "the operator inputs secondary
information formed by a title and a keyword corresponding to the primary information from a
keyboard 1, and inputs a registration run command from the keyboard 1 at a step S35."
Claims 1 and 5-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Kita. The3
examiner's rejection is stated in the Examiner's Answer, pages 10-11, and repeated in the Supp.
Examiner's Answer, pages 4-5.
3
Since Kita issued after the filing date of the subject application, the proper statutory basis for
the rejection is 35 U.S.C. § 102(e), not § 102(b).
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