Appeal No. 97-1223 Page 21
Application No. 08/147,143
Regarding claim 38, giving the claim it broadest
reasonable interpretation, we find that the claimed invention
does not define over the references. The claim specifies in
pertinent part “a page number dialog box displayed when a page
number button is selected, the page number dialog box having a
field in which a page number handwritten with the stylus is
recognized by the handwriting recognizer, wherein the means
for specifying one of said plurality of pages as the current
page specifies the page having the recognized page number as
the current page.” (Amendment A at 7.)
The prior art would have suggested the page number dialog
box and means for specifying. Slate teaches a “Find” dialog
box, which is displayed when a user scrawls “F” on the screen.
The dialog box has a field in which text entries are
recognized. P. 2. Similarly, the use of “Go To” dialog boxes
in personal and portable computers to facilitate moving to a
specific page was old and well known in the art at the time of
the invention. A user would generally type the number of a
page to which he wanted to move into the Go To dialog box to
jump to the page. Official notice is taken thereof. As
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