Appeal No. 97-2886
Application 08/441,493
in the unsolved area of the game board and reappeared in their
final position in the solution area of the game board. See
Figures 4, 5 and 8 through 12 of the application drawings for a
showing of the respective paths (136, 140, 142, 144).
To address this difference between the known previous
version of the anagram game REVELATION™ and appellant's claimed
apparatus, the examiner urges that the recited movement of
characters is "considered to be old and well known to the 'drag'
modes known on computer interfaces" (answer, page 3). In
addition, the examiner points to the teaching in Cunningham of
arcade games (col. 1, line 13) and the teaching at column 1, line
38, of Cunningham, and concludes that
To have provided computer outlines in "a path of
predetermined plurality of points" with a "means for
moving" as required by claim 1 would have been obvious
to provide a more easily understood interface.
On page 5 of the answer, the examiner also points to the
"File Manager" applications in Windows, urging that "[i]cons of
the files can be directly 'dragged' from on [sic, one] disk drive
to another along a path of a predetermined plurality of points"
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