Appeal No. 97-1355
Application 08/072,826
Tom Petaccia, "Disk Top 4.0 CE Software's indispensable Finder-DA
reaches new heights," MacUser, Volume 6, No. 6, pages 76-79,
June 1990.
The Rejections on Appeal
Claims 1, 3, 6-8, 10, 13 and 14 stand finally rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Petaccia and Torres.
The appellant has stated that claims 1, 3, 6-8, 10, 13 and 14
stand or fall together.
The Invention
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A user initiated method of increasing available
storage space on a computer system by deletion of data
from containers which contain a plurality of documents,
comprising the steps of:
selecting a scrubber container displayed on the
computer system, said scrubber container having
predefined user designated criteria for deletion;
dropping said scrubber container onto at least one
other user selected container displayed on the computer
system, said at least one other container having stored
therein a plurality of documents;
automatically searching each of said documents in
said at least one other user selected container using
said predefined user designated criteria; and
automatically deleting any of said documents
matching said predefined user designated criteria.
Opinion
In our view, the combined teachings of Petaccia and Torres
would not have reasonably suggested the appellant's claimed
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