Appeal No. 97-0642
Application 08/242,318
would have been motivated to implement the conversion features
of Horodeck using known techniques of pen-based interfaces as
taught by Sklarew. As noted by the Examiner (EA17), Sklarew
discloses that user defined delimiters can be used to identify
portions of text to be moved (col. 10, lines 38-42), which
reasonably would have suggested to one skilled in the art that
the keyboard-entered delimiters in Horodeck could be replaced
by stylus-entered delimiters to identify text to be converted.
Sklarew discloses using a softkey or a gesture to initiate a
function, which would have suggested to one skilled in the art
that a gesture could be used to initiate other functions, such
as conversion. In our opinion, the combination of Sklarew and
Horodeck establishes a prima facie case of obviousness.
Appellant argues that the rejection should be overturned
for the reasons stated in Argument Section B (Br22). We refer
to our discussion of the arguments with respect to claim 1.
In addition, we note that Horodeck discloses the same kind of
text domain conversion as disclosed by Appellant.
Appellant also argues that step (f) of claim 24 requires
that "the source and destination text domains specify words in
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