Appeal No. 97-1355
Application 08/072,826
stated (answer at 8):
The more specific teaching of Torres is to allow an
operator to select particular data fields from a
plurality of data fields of a particular icon type for
utilization in direct icon manipulation (see column 2
lines 40-46 and elsewhere). Ordinarily skilled
artisans would have recognized this as the operation
being performed in DeskTop 4.0 as described by Petaccia
in selection of certain criteria for use in searching a
container.
But using a modified icon to represent selected data fields
of a particular type of icon having multiple data fields, as
applied to Petaccia in the manner explained by the examiner,
concerns only the identification of predefined search criteria.
It does not make up for the deficiencies of Petaccia regarding
(1) the existence of a scrubber container which is associated
with a predefined user designated criteria for deletion of
documents, (2) selecting the scrubber container and dropping it
into a document container to automatically search for documents
satisfying the criteria associated with the scrubber.
The fact that "drag and drop" is a generally known operation
involving display icons would not have rendered obvious all drag
and drop operations no matter what is being dragged, what is the
destination of the drop, and what subsequent events occur. The
issue is also not simply using a scrubber object or icon to
represent a delete function. Rather, it is the specific manner
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