Appeal No. 1998-2674
Application 08/329,724
Appellants argue that claim 1 requires display of the
information cursor (RBr8). We read the Examiner's action as
referring to the pointing portion of the cursor, not the
information portion. Claim 1 clearly requires display of a
cursor with a pointing portion and, when the pointing
portion is positioned over an object, display of the
information portion of the cursor. What the Examiner may
have been trying to get at was that the figure in Matthies
does not specifically show a pointing cursor (because it
only shows how the balloons are created), but that a cursor
must be present and does not prevent Matthies from being an
anticipation. It is clear that Matthies has a cursor with a
pointing portion, although not shown, as evidenced by Inside
Macintosh. Appellants do not contest that Matthies has a
cursor with a pointing portion which remains visible when
the balloon is displayed.
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