Appeal No. 2000-0146 Page 8
Application No. 08/979,069
rectangle for a selected block of text at a source location.
Specifically, “[s]haded area 8 in FIG. 3 shows one possible
appearance of marked data and, for purposes of illustration of
the invention, represents a data source location.” Id. at
ll. 59-62. The examiner does not show, however, that Peters’
data transfer operation ends with the display of a second
bounding rectangle for the selected block of text at a
destination location. To the contrary, Figure 4 of the
reference, which “is a representation of the two windows of
FIG. 3 after completion of the transfer of data between those
two windows,” col. 3, ll. 49-51, shows no bounding rectangles
at all, let alone a second bounding rectangle for the selected
block of text at a destination location.
Because there is no showing that Peters’ data transfer
operation ends with the display of a second bounding rectangle
for the selected block of text at a destination location, we
are not persuaded that the applied prior art discloses the
limitations of "zooming from a first bounding rectangle for
the selected block of text at a source location to a second
bounding rectangle for the selected block of text at the
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