Appeal No. 1997-1383
Application No. 08/217,392
claims. This is especially so since claim 5 recites nothing
more, but even less than claim 1, in that the "request area"
of claim 1 is absent from claim 5. In addition, Appellants
argue:
. . . Nielsen does not disclose or
suggest a static icon depiction of a stack
of pages and a miniature replica of a
printed representation of a current page in
the stack.
With regard to the static icon, the
Office Action argues that in Figs. 2.1,
2.4, 2.6 and 2.8 of Nielsen "the edges of
the pages is a static icon depicting a
stack of pages." Appellant disagrees. The
displays shown in these figures illustrates
either a hard-bound book or a spiral-bound
book; therefore, the page edges do not
portray a stack of pages but rather portray
the pages in a book. (Brief-page 20.)
As noted supra, we agree with the Examiner. A book is
clearly a stack of pages, albeit, pages that are bound. The
claims do not distinguish between bound or unbound pages. In
addition, Levine teaches this limitation at column 25,
lines 60-62.
Appellants further argue that Levine does not disclose a
"request area". (Brief-page 21.) However, we note that claim
5 does not require a "request area". In addition, this
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