Appeal No. 96-2616
Application 08/280,271
The examiner appears to recognize this difference between the instant claimed invention and the
system disclosed by APS. However, the examiner cites Inoue for the teaching of a
selected portion of text being retained in its physical position and concludes that it would have been
obvious
to incorporate Inoue’s retain the physical position of a text into APS’s
teachings of displaying selected line (word) in a file, in order to allow
the APS system to retain certain part of the line or word in the file for
future use [Answer-page 4].
First, while Inoue does disclose a “specified area to be displayed fixedly...,” this disclosure
refers to a scrollable window area of the display in Inoue wherein that window area scrolls in the same
direction as, and with, text displayed outside the window area until the window reaches an end of the
display at which time it becomes an unscrollable window area which is displayed fixedly on the display
screen while text outside the window area continues to scroll. Thus, until the window area reaches the
end of the screen, it is, in fact, moving with the text outside the window area and is not retained in a
physical position, both horizontally and vertically, on the physical display screen, as required by the
instant claims. Once the window area reaches the fixed position on the screen where it no longer
scrolls, and assuming that this window area is analogous to the claimed “selected line,” it cannot be said
that selected lines are displayed “immediately preceding and immediately succeeding the selected line in
the same data file in physical position above and below, respectively, the selected line...,” as claimed.
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