Appeal No. 97-2538
Application 08/280,907
USPQ 17, 22 (CCPA 1977), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 854, 195 USPQ
465 (1977).
Even considering Bloomfield ‘911's window 188 as a
template area pane which displays only template objects,
however, the combination of Bloomfield ‘710, Bloomfield ‘911,
and Fleming would not have rendered obvious the appellants’
claimed invention.
The examiner acknowledged that neither Bloomfield ‘710
nor Bloomfield ‘911 teaches the automatic creation of a new
template object in the template area pane in response to a
copy of the object being dropped into the template area pane.
(Answer at 4). Relying on Fleming, however, the examiner
states (Answer at 4):
On the other hand, Fleming describes a graphical
method for creating an object at Figs. 7-9, and at
col. 4, lines 7-31, wherein a new template object is
automatically created by dropping an object icon,
such as document icon 37 on dispenser icon 27 [a
template area pane for a single object]. In
addition, Fleming provides a teaching that an object
icon may be dropped on a dispenser icon that already
has a dispensable icon in it, but in Fleming’s case,
rather than creating multiple templates, “the object
represented by the dispensable object mini-icon
would be replaced by the object represented by the
dragged icon.”
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