Appeal No. 1997-2055
Application No. 08/175,873
an occurrence of a single abstract event. The examiner
equates (Office action, pages 4-5) "dragging the icons through
the clock object and placing it in the out-basket along with
the mail object" with the two action objects. However,
dragging and placing the icon in the basket are not initiated
or executed in response to the placing of the note in the
basket (which the examiner names as the abstract event), as
required by the claim. Thus, as interpreted by the examiner,
Haynes does not disclose every element of the claim and,
therefore, does not anticipate claim 1, nor its dependent,
claim 2.
Nonetheless, we find that Haynes does anticipate claim 1.
We match the elements of Haynes with those claimed as follows:
dragging the icon over the clock and dropping it in the
outbasket corresponds to one abstract event, dragging the icon
around the clock and dropping it in the outbasket corresponds
to a second abstract event, dragged over the clock corresponds
to an action slot container object, and hold message
(specifying to hold the message until a specified time) and
send message (specifying to send the message at the specified
time) correspond to the two action objects within the action
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