Ex parte JOHNSON - Page 3




          Appeal No. 2000-0112                                       Page 3           
          Application No. 08/935,005                                                  


                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               The appellant's invention relates to a particular form of              
          horizontally structured printed and electronic text, and the                
          method of formatting such horizontally structured printed and               
          electronic text.  An understanding of the invention can be                  
          derived from a reading of exemplary claims 5 and 8, which read              
          as follows:                                                                 


               5.   A method of formatting horizontally structured                    
          printed and electronic text, comprising:                                    
               reversing the word sequence on a second line of the text               
          and every other line thereafter so the reader when finished                 
          reading a first line from left to right drops his/her eyes                  
          directly below to begin reading the second line from right to               
          left, continuing in this alternating fashion of reading left                
          to right, right to left until finished reading all lines of                 
          the text; and                                                               
               arranging all letters in each word form[sic] left to                   
          right in all lines of text.                                                 
               8.   Horizontally structured printed and electronic text,              
          comprising a first line of text in which the word sequence is               
          left to right followed by a second line of text in which the                
          word sequence is right to left and all letters are[sic] in                  
          each word are arranged from left to right in both lines of                  
          text.                                                                       











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