Appeal No. 1998-2674
Application 08/329,724
OPINION
Grouping of claims
Claims 1-9 are grouped to stand or fall together (Br5).
Claims 20 and 21 are argued separately (Br5).
Claims 1-9
"Anticipation is established only when a single prior
art reference discloses, expressly or under principles of
inherency, each and every element of a claimed invention."
RCA Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc., 730 F.2d
1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
Matthies is directed to the Balloon Help system used by
the Macintosh System 7 Operating System. When the cursor is
positioned within a predefined screen rectangle, called a
hot rectangle, a balloon appears containing a message about
that area. When the cursor moves out of the area defined by
the hot rectangle, the balloon disappears. The balloon
appears as a rounded rectangle with a pointer called the
tip. Matthies states (p. 1): "The programmer specifies
where the tip should be; and the Help Manager is responsible
for selecting one of the eight possible balloon positions so
the help message is clearly visible on-screen." This is
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