Appeal No. 1997-2110
Application No. 08/143,687
It is apparent from our reading of Vertelney that a clear
teaching is provided of selecting portions of an object (e.g.
text display, Fig. 6a; photo display, Fig. 6b) and
distributing that selected portion to a particular context
such as “mail” or “print”. We can find no disclosure in
Vertelney, however, of providing for the distribution of the
entire content of an object to a context as required by
appealed claims 1 and 15.
We note that in the “Response to Argument” portion of the
Answer at pages 14 and 15, the Examiner contends that the
claims do not have an explicit recitation of “selecting a
portion” of the content of an object as argued by Appellants.
In the Examiner’s view, the claim language “... presentation
characteristics comprising a selection of said content of said
object...” does not require a user selection and such
selection could already be in place. It is our opinion,
however, that, notwithstanding the merits of the Examiner’s
argument, such does not address the deficiencies of
Vertelney’s disclosure discussed
supra. In other words, regardless of whether Appellants’
claims could be interpreted as not precluding a content
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