Appeal No. 94-3603
Application 08/001,121
Crandall discloses a software reminder procedure that allows
a user to save a screen display of a currently executing process
as part of a reminder message for later recall.
Pursuant to a remand entered August 1, 1995 (Paper No. 21),
to consider the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in view of
proposed guidelines which issued as Examination Guidelines for
Computer-Related Inventions, 1184 Off. Gaz. Pat. & Trademark
Office 87 (March 26, 1996), the section 101 rejection has been
withdrawn (Supp. Examiner's Answer, Paper No. 22, page 9).
Claims 1-4 and 6-36 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Kita and Crandall. The examiner's
rejection is stated in the Examiner's Answer, pages 9-13, and is
repeated in the Supp. Examiner's Answer, pages 4-8. Appellants'
position is set forth in the Brief and in the Reply Brief.
OPINION
Grouping of claims
After withdrawal of the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 101, the
claims stand grouped into four groups: (1) claims 1, 6-9, 15,
18-19, and 29-32; (2) claims 2-4 and 21-22, which recite that the
pointer is a stylus of a pen-based computer system;
(3) claims 10-14, 16-17, 20, and 23-28, which include displaying
the application files in which records were found and displaying
the number of occurrences of the search string in each
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