Appeal No. 97-2538
Application 08/280,907
Having identified the limited space within Fleming’s
dispenser object icon 27 as the template area pane which
creates template objects from any object copied into it, the
examiner has identified no empty space within that template
area pane into which an object from within the pane can be
copied. No explanation has been provided as to why one with
ordinary skill in the art would have been motivated to do away
with Fleming’s object dispenser 27 and make a large section of
Fleming’s client area 19 an area pane capable of reproducing
objects dropped anywhere within it and objects copied from an
object that is already within the pane. Fleming’s feature of
dragging objects out of the object dispenser icon is
insufficient to satisfy the specific copying features of the
appellants’ claimed invention, even assuming that Fleming’s
objects are template objects.
For the foregoing reasons, the rejection of claims 1-10
and 12-21 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Bloomfield ‘710, Bloomfield ‘911, and Fleming cannot be
sustained.
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