Ex parte HIRAYAMA - Page 8




          Appeal No. 95-4629                                                          
          Application 07/831,953                                                      



          the invention intended to be recited in independent claim 5                 
          and its most dependent claim, claim 9, there is no statement                
          of any tolerance range and whether a given image display                    
          position is within or without this tolerance range as related               
          to any conditions recited.  These considerations are all                    
          significant because they widen the breadth of applicability of              
          prior art against the present claims.  The examiner has taken               
          full advantage according to the reasoning that we understand                
          from the answers to this wider-scoped language of the claims.               
          Appellant's arguments are therefore not coextensive with the                
          actual recited conditional language of the claims and                       
          therefore do not show a full appreciation of the breadth of                 
          the subject  matter set forth in the claims on appeal.                      
               As to the first rejection of claims 1, 2, 5 and 6 under                
          35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Microsoft , we add to               
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          the examiner's view our view as to the showing at page xii the              
          image showing of two windows overlapping each other.  The                   
          statement below these two depictions indicates to the user                  
          that "to review a spreadsheet and a report from two separate                
          applications, you change the size of their windows so that                  

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