Appeal No. 97-0883
Application 08/138,650
It appears to us that the examiner has failed to
appreciate that the invention is primarily directed to the
manipulation of data (tasks) related to a telecommunications
network on a display device. Although such data manipulations
are well known in graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and object
oriented programming, for example, no reference related to
these concepts has been applied in any rejection of the claims
on appeal.
In summary, Weiss simply is unrelated to the claimed
invention and does not disclose all the limitations recited in
independent claims 1 and 8. Although we cannot say on this
record whether there is better prior art available than Weiss,
we can say that Weiss does not fully meet the invention as
required under 35 U.S.C. § 102.
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