Appeal No. 1997-2110
Application No. 08/143,687
whether a user interface element has the capability of
operating on the selected data. To address this deficiency,
the Examiner asserts the obviousness to the skilled artisan of
making such a determination and providing an error indicator
if such operation could not be performed.
While Appellants have made several arguments in response,
the primary thrust of the arguments centers on the alleged
deficiency of Vertelney in disclosing a key feature of
independent claims 1 and 15. Appellants assert at page 7 of
the Brief:
Vertelney does not teach the combination of
selecting a portion of the content of a temporal
based object and then distributing all of the
content of the object and the presentation
characteristics to a context, as is provided
by claims 1 and 15.
Upon careful review of the Vertelney reference in light
of the arguments of record, we are in agreement with
Appellants. In our view, Appellants are correct in their
assertion that, while Vertelney teaches the selection of a
portion of an object and associates presentation
characteristics with such selected portion, the entire content
of the object is not distributed as required by the claims.
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