Appeal No. 97-1355
Application 08/072,826
Petaccia discloses a document finder utility. A set of
criteria is established based on which document folders will be
searched. After document folders have been searched and a list
of found items has been created, a user may execute a number of
operations on them, for instance, deleting, copying, or moving
(page 76). Thus, not only is there no scrubber container, by the
time the delete function is identified in Petaccia, the document
folder or folders have already been searched based on the
predefined user designated criteria. While Petaccia discloses a
generalized document finder facility which finds files first to
permit various functions to be performed on them later, the
claimed invention is directed to a specialized delete operation
which identifies the delete action first and then locates the
files based on criteria associated with the delete operation.
Thus, in connection with Petaccia, there is no need, purpose, or
motivation, for anyone to drag a scrubber container and drop it
into a document holding container to initiate a search for files,
in addition to there being no scrubber container as claimed.
Torres has been relied on by the examiner to show the
conventionality of drag and drop operations involving display
icons. Specifically, Torres discloses the dragging of one icon
and dropping of the same into another. As the examiner correctly
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