Appeal No. 1996-3750
Application No. 08/321,058
does appellant appeal the final rejection of claims 6-9 and
18-21.1
The invention pertains to word processing in general and
to annotation in a side margin of a word processing object in
particular. Claims 3 and 15 relate to aligning the annotation
with a selected location and moving a portion of the
annotation to the next page. Claims 4 and 16 relate to adding
space in the body of the object in order to maintain alignment
of the annotation and the selected location after a revision
of the body. Claims 5 and 17 relate to the problem of overlap
of annotations when a single line in the body may have more
than one annotation associated with that line. Claims 10 and
22 relate to formatting an annotation independently of the
body. Claims 11 and 23 relate to setting a particular format
for the annotation. Claims 12 and 24 relate to locating a
plurality of annotations in alternating right and left side
margins of sequential pages of the body.
1An amendment, filed October 11, 1995 (Paper No. 6),
attempted to cancel claims 3, 6-10, 15 and 18-22, while
amending claims 1, 2, 4, 5, 11-14, 16, 17, 23 and 24, but the
amendment was refused entry by the examiner.
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