Appeal No. 96-3260 Page 7
Application No. 08/134,214
applied references do not suggest these limitations. We
disagree.
The examiner points to page 90 of Baumgarten, relating to
“Completing the Block Operation,” and points out that there is
a teaching therein that a “Sort” operation, as claimed, may be
employed. Appellants argue, at page 9 of the brief, that “it
appears that the sorting operation is not available with the
block command” in Baumgarten. Such an argument is clearly
misplaced in view of Baumgarten’s disclosure, at page 90, that
the list of functions, including a “Sort” function, “work with
the Block command.” Appellants then argue, at page 10 of the
brief, that if Baumgarten does disclose a sorting operation
that functions with the block command, “the sorting operations
[sic, operation] does not function to sort the objects as a
function of the position of each of the objects on a computer
screen” [emphasis in the original]. However, we agree with the
examiner that this limitation is recited so broadly as to
include the alphanumerical sorting of Baumgarten. When two
spaces are replaced by a single space or two hard returns are
replaced by a single hard return in Baumgarten, the words, or
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