Appeal No. 1997-3130
Application No. 08/483,772
OPINION
The obviousness rejection of claims 34 through 45 is
reversed.
Yoneyama discloses an office view on display 52 that
includes a filing cabinet 90, a desk 92, a document tray 94
and a wastebasket 96 (Figure 4). The first drawer 98-1 is
thereafter selected by the viewer (Figure 5). Each of the
drawers in the filing cabinet has guide plates 102 located
between document holders 100 (Figures 5 through 7).
According to the examiner (Answer, pages 3 and 4):
[A]lthough Yoneyama et al. appear to restrict
their explicit disclosure to stopping at the
opened file drawer level, and not “an open
folder view” with “a reduced size image of
a document”, it would have been obvious to a
person having ordinary skill in the art at
the time of appellant’s invention to extend
the office metaphor hierarchy one step lower
to the level of individual document images,
which, as in the file drawer “stacked arrangement”
of folders in Yoneyama et al., will similarly
depict a realistic image of the inside of a
folder. This furthers the aim of Yoneyama
et al.’s user-friendly manipulation of
document elements to be arranged within folders.
Beard discloses a display screen 50 with a desktop 54
that shows a variety of icons or symbols (Figures 3 through
5). The displayed icons include document icons 64A and 64B,
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