Appeal No. 97-1223 Page 16
Application No. 08/147,143
reference’s creation of bookmarks would have suggested the
claimed “means for marking one or more of the pages in the
book by interaction of the stylus with the display screen,
....” Once created, Slate’s bookmarks permit a user to tap a
stylus to “zip” to frequently-used sections of a document.
P. 2.
A user accesses the bookmarks through a pull-down menu.
P. 3. The pull-down menu would have suggested “those pages
that have been marked having associated bookmark buttons
displayed in a navigation dialog box appearing on the display
means when a navigation button is selected ....” One of
ordinary skill in the art would have understood the pull-down
menu must contain an icon or name of each bookmark with which
the user can interact to “zip” to the section marked by the
bookmark. The icon or name would have suggested a bookmark
button. One also would have understood the pull-down menu
appears when a user select the “Bookmarks” command. The 3
command would have suggested the navigation button.
3This understanding is reflected in the operation of the
bookmarks in the well known and Netscape web browser.
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