Appeal No. 97-2886
Application 08/441,493
application in Windows, we agree with appellant that movement of
an icon using the "drag" mode in the "File Manager" application
is not along "a path defined by a predetermined plurality of
points..." as in appellant's claim 1 on appeal, but instead
allows the selected icon to be "dragged" by the user along any
path he/she chooses.
Moreover, we do not see how Cunningham in any way “clearly
teach [sic] and bridges any gap between the game of Revelations
[sic] and known computer display manipulations,” as urged by the
examiner on page 8 of the answer. Even if one would have gleaned
from Cunningham that arcade games played on a computer are known
to use “drag” features, as the examiner believes, we do not see
how this fact alone, or in combination with the “drag” mode in
the “File Manager” application of Windows, would have led one of
ordinary skill in the art to modify the previously know version
of the game of REVELATION™ in the manner urged by the examiner so
as to arrive at the particular apparatus set forth in appellant’s
claim 1 on appeal. Again, we note that there is no teaching or
suggestion in the applied prior art of moving a character of an
anagram from its initial position in the unsolved area of the
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