Appeal No. 96-2372
Application 08/278,676
therein any teaching or suggestion of a "means for displaying the
options on the viewscreen in a non-closed, curved band" as set
forth in independent claim 1 on appeal and as set forth, in
somewhat different language, in independent claim 22 on appeal.
In each instance in Callahan (e.g., Figures 2, 4, 5 and 7), the
menu items (options) seen in the menu displayed on the viewscreen
are distributed so as to occupy the entire 360E of the pie menu
and to establish wedge-shaped or sector-shaped activation regions
like that shown, for example, in Figure 5. There is simply no
disclosure or teaching in Callahan of the particular type of non-
closed, curved band menu display formats disclosed and claimed by
appellants in the present application. As for the arbitrarily
shaped windows seen in Figure 16 of the Callahan article, we note
the total lack of any description of such menu displays and again
note our failure to find anything therein which teaches or
suggests "means for displaying" non-closed, curved band menu
formats like those required in appellants' claims on appeal.
Further, like appellants, we observe that Callahan
fails to teach or suggest "corresponding areas," as set forth
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