Appeal No. 97-2538
Application 08/280,907
It is evident that the examiner is relying on Fleming for
these features of the appellants’ claimed invention:
1. a template area pane which creates template
objects from any object copied into said template
area pane; and
2. in response to the copying of at least one
template object from the template area pane into an
empty space within the template area pane,
automatically creating and displaying at least one
new template object in the template object pane.
The examiner has identified the space within Fleming’s
object dispenser icon 27 as equivalent to a template area pane
having the size of a single object. Ignoring for the moment
that Fleming’s document objects are not template objects, it
is true that whatever document that gets dragged and dropped
into the space within the dispenser object icon 27 becomes a
dispensable object having its own mini-icon. See Fleming’s
Figures 7-9. Additionally, a user may drag Fleming’s
dispensable object mini-icon from within the object dispenser
icon 27 to elsewhere on the client area 19 and drop it to form
a copy of the object. See Figures 1-3. However, these
functions of Fleming’s system do not satisfy the above-noted
claim features of the appellants.
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