Appeal No. 96-1396
Application 08/176,335
new rejection of independent claims 1, 6 and 11 under 35
U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by the disclosure of
Fleming.
For purposes of reading the claimed invention on the
disclosure of Fleming, we will use claim 1 as the
representative claim. We also interpret claim 1 in its
broadest form which means that we interpret "one or more
icons" as meaning one icon and "one or more actionable
objects" as meaning one actionable object. Claim 1 reads on
Fleming as follows:
(a) means for producing a menu bar in a window is met
by menu bar 37 of Fleming;
(b) means for placing a menu bar icon in the menu bar
is met by icon 45 of Fleming;
(c) means for associating one...actionable object in
said window with said menu bar icon ... and being operable
independent of said menu bar icon is met by actionable object
"project X" of Fleming and by menu bar icon 45 of Fleming;
[note that actionable object "Project X" is operable
independent of menu bar icon 45 by use of icon 21];
(d) means for sending a selection message to the
one...associated actionable object in response to operator
selection of the menu bar icon is met by icon 45 of Fleming;
[note that selection of icon 45 causes a selection message to
be sent to actionable object "Project X"].
Since the broadest reasonable interpretation of
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