Ex parte RABENHORST - Page 12




                 Appeal No. 1996-3706                                                                                                                   
                 Application 07/854,921                                                                                                                 


                                   In response to Appellant's argument that Conrad does                                                                 
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                 not disclose any mutuality the Examiner points  to Conrad                                                                              
                 which discusses post-display (single or multiple screens) cell                                                                         
                 property analysis by the user, by pattern recognition, cluster                                                                         
                 analysis, or heuristic or mathematical techniques.  In                                                                                 
                 addition, in the Supplemental Examiner's Answer , the Examiner                      18                                                 
                 also points to Conrad  and generally notes that "data events19                                                                                               
                 touched by a cursor are visualized in different formats at the                                                                         
                 same time in multiple displays of the screen" and "the user                                                                            
                 positions cursor 40 over a region of dots on data field 122 to                                                                         
                 change data elements."                                                                                                                 
                                   In response to Appellant's argument that Conrad does                                                                 
                 not disclose performing logical operations the Examiner points                                                                         
                 to Conrad's  teaching of using "mathematical techniques," and20                                                                                                                 
                 alleges that since logical operations are a subset of                                                                                  



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