Appeal No. 1999-2716
Application 08/561,178
The sort button is labeled “K” in the Feature Guide
and “K” is identified as “To specify a sort order for tasks in
the report, choose this button” [page 86]. If one looks to
the various task reports set out in the Feature Guide, one can
see that the type of information listed on these task reports
is not the same information as shown in the edit task report
box on page 86. Thus, the types of parameters upon which
tasks in the task reports can be sorted are not related to the
items set forth as “A” to “G” in the edit task report box
shown on page 86. Therefore, a key feature of the claimed
invention is not present in the prior art as applied by the
examiner. More particularly, the query dialog box of the
claimed invention is not met by the edit task report box of
the Feature Guide because the parameters designated by the
examiner are not parameters upon which a sort is based as
required by the claimed invention. The parameters to be
sorted, their values and their sort order must all appear
within the query dialog box. The edit task report box on page
86 of the Feature Guide does not show any of these items.
Since we find that the examiner has not properly
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