Appeal No. 97-1223 Page 3
Application No. 08/147,143
placing a bookmark at a preselected page when the
bookmark button is selected by interaction of the stylus with
the display screen; and
displaying a menu page in the electronic book when the
return to menu button is selected by interaction of the stylus
with the display screen, the menu page listing one or more
destinations within the electronic book which can be reached
by selecting a corresponding destination from the menu page.
The references relied on by the patent examiner in
rejecting the claims follow:
Capps 5,367,453 Nov. 22, 1994
(filed Aug. 2, 1993)
Marcelle M. Soviero (Soviero), "Your World According to
Newton," Popular Science, Sept., 1992, 45-49.
Slate Corp., PenBook™ brochure, approximately 1991. 2
Claims 1-18 and 31-40 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as obvious over Capps, Soviero, and Slate. (Examiner’s
Answer at 3.) Rather than repeat the arguments of the
appellants or examiner in toto, we refer to the appeal and
reply briefs and the examiner’s answer for the respective
details thereof.
2 See Information Disclosure Statement of November 3,
1993.
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