Appeal No. 1997-3145 Page 7
Application No. 08/058,199
b) automatically adjusting the position of the
target area and enlarged display area to preserve the
view of the target area.
To overcome these deficiencies of Hama, the examiner turns to
Berry (final rejection, page 3) for a teaching of selecting a
target area and automatically placing a related window of
information at positions which will not overlap the selected
target area. The examiner additionally relies upon Waller
(id.) for a teaching of "a system which displays over an
original of a target area an enlarged view of the target
area." The examiner concludes (id.) that it would have been
obvious to "automatically adjust the position of Hamas' [sic]
target area and enlarged display area over the original image
of the target area to give perspective to the observer and to
preserve the view of the target area."
Appellants assert (brief, pages 7 and 8) that Berry
discloses a system for displaying HELP text. When a HELP menu
is called up, a blank area in a selected quadrant of the
screen is sought. However, the HELP menu is not an enlarged
image of a portion of the original image 11, and Berry "is not
even remotely related to the displaying without overlap of an
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