Appeal No. 95-4629
Application 07/831,953
has interpreted the breadth of the claims on appeal and
applied the reference's teaching to this broad language.
We turn next to the rejection of the same claims, claims
1, 2, 5 and 6 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 in light of the collective
teachings of Microsoft in view of Borland. Clearly, Borland
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is designed to operate in a Windows environment such as set
forth in the Microsoft reference relied upon initially by the
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examiner. What Borland does add to the Microsoft is
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additional teachings that are particular to Borland but also
which enhance upon basic Microsoft features. The zoom, tile,
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stack and move/size optional window features first introduced
at page 237 of Borland's reference also contain additional
options to which the user may obtain and directly relate to
the correctability and the conditional operability from a
user's perspective of features that affect the Window images
and their relationship to each other and the size of any one
of them. For example, the tile display feature is stated at
the bottom of page 239 to automatically, once activated by the
user, reposition and resize the displayed windows as necessary
giving the windows equal room on the screen. The ability of
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