Appeal No. 1999-2716
Application 08/561,178
plural windows into a single window based on conventional
tradeoffs of window complexity and ease of use. The examiner
also finds that it would have been obvious to the artisan to
designate a parameter value for each of the displayed
parameters [id., pages 4-5 and answer, pages 5-7].
Appellant makes the following arguments: 1) The
program represented by the Feature Guide is not designed to
run in real time; 2) The Feature Guide does not enable a user
to designate parameter values and to select a sort order
within a single dialog box; 3) The Feature Guide does not
teach how to create new filters or edit present filters; 4)
The Feature Guide would
require more complicated actions by the user to achieve the
same results as appellant’s invention; 5) The Feature Guide’s
use of plural windows teaches away from appellant’s use of a
single window; 6) the examiner’s proposed modification to the
Feature Guide program would render the Feature Guide program
unsatisfactory for its intended purpose [brief, pages 12-24];
and 7) The motivation cited by the examiner is based on
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