Appeal No. 1996-2581
Application No. 08/288,139
action processor process for monitoring selection
and movement of the images on the viewing screen
and for generating semantic commands by lexical and
syntactical analysis of the selection and movement
of the images on the viewing screen, each of the
semantic commands identifying an entity being
operated on, where identification of the entity is
independent of location of the images on the viewing
screen, . . . .
In attempting to address this claim language, the
Examiner (Answer, pages 2, 4, and 7) directs attention to the
graphical editor 22 in Barstow and points to Barstow’s
description at column 2, line 65 to column 3, line 35, column
4, lines 40-44, column 10, lines 7-32, and column 12, line 5
to column 13, line 16 as supporting the position that the
claimed semantic command generation is taking place. In our
view, however, the cited passages from Barstow merely indicate
that graphical images are manipulated in some unspecified
manner to enable a computer program to be created. At most,
Barstow describes, as illustrated in Figure 5, the linking of
graphical images in the form of modular boxes to form a
composite image which will be expressed in a program
definition language. We find no disclosure in Barstow which
supports the Examiner’s conclusion that the selection and
movement of graphical images is monitored and the movement is
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