Appeal No. 96-1343
Application 07/993,225
It follows that we cannot sustain the standing rejection of the
appealed claims as being anticipated by Obata.
Under the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we enter the
following new rejection.
Claims 1, 2, 5, 9, 10 and 12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by the Spell Check program of
WordPerfect® Version 4.2 (hereinafter, Spell Check). Using the
language of appellants’ claim 1 as a guide, and with particular
reference to pages 4 and 5 of the Speller/Thesaurus Chapter of
the operation manual for WordPerfect® Version 4.2, the Spell
Check program constitutes a method of controlling individual
messages (i.e., the Spell Check menu displayed across the bottom
of the screen) on a data process system comprising the steps of
(a) detecting an occurrence of a message producing action (the
absence of a match between a particular word of a document and
the entries of Spell Check’s dictionaries), (b) providing a
message associated with said detected message producing action to
a user (displaying the message “Not Found” in the lower left hand
corner of the screen upon the initial absence of a match), (c)
providing to said user a selection of whether said message should
be provided to the user upon future occurrences of said detected
message producing action, and detecting said user selection
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