Appeal No. 96-2275
Application 08/010,063
correlate to the claimed scroll bars and slider means
respectively.
As indicated earlier we reverse the rejection of independent
method claim 60. In contrast to independent claims 1 and 29 on
appeal, independent claim 60 recites the showing on a single
access window of three access window functions in clause B,
whereas these other two independent claims recite only at least
one access function. Furthermore, independent claim 60 in
respective clauses C, D and E further requires the performance of
certain distinct enumerated steps upon the selection of each of
the respective three access functions selected by the user,
whereas the subject matter of independent claims 1 and 29 and
their respective dependent claims as grouped by appellants recite
only one access function by name as an alternative, but not all
together. Although we disagree with appellants’ assertion at the
bottom of page 13 of the brief that WORDPERFECT does not suggest
the “individual help mechanisms,” for the reasons stated, we do
agree with the additional assertion that Wordperfect does not
show “a single window that contains all three search mechanisms.”
The subject matter of this claim corresponds to appellants’
Figure 3 of the disclosed invention, which presents it in its
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