Appeal No. 95-4629
Application 07/831,953
they can fit side by side on the desktop." This showing
clearly shows that a given window image may "protrude from" a
visible area of the display such as to be overlapped by
another window closer to the user. The statement that the
size of them may be changed so that they may fit side by side
operates as a clear teaching of the
correctability of them to the extent claimed, with such a
corrected version shown at page xiii. From the user's
perspective, to display the images side by side is an
operational or conditional feature within the Windows
software, which feature may be chosen or may not be chosen by
the user.
Furthermore, the teaching at the bottom of page 21 of
Windows indicates that controls exist to change the size and
to move Windows, to maximize and minimize their size by use of
a mouse, a coordinate data input device, noted by the examiner
in the Answer. As to the protrusion feature, we also note the
teaching at page 22 of Microsoft which indicates that the
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scroll bars allow parts of a document to be viewed when the
entire document won't fit within the window. Therefore, when
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