Appeal No. 1998-2674
Application 08/329,724
Steele
Steele discloses an interactive method of communicating
with a language deficient user, such as an aphasic patient.
The Examiner's rejection relies on figure 13g as teaching a
"visual element" (an icon describing pouring) with the
cursor positioned next to it (EA6). The Examiner states
(EA6-7): "[w]hen the cursor is moved into a region
containing the visual element, the cursor would display
information relating to the displayed visual element (see
Figure 13g and Abstract, lines 10-13)."
Appellants argue that figure 13g does not depict
displaying within the cursor information relating to a
pointed-to visual element, but only shows dragging icons
corresponding to ideas into the top portion of a phrase
window in order to translate them into textual language in a
field at the bottom of the phrase window (RBr5).
Appellants argue that lines 10-13 of the abstract refer
to figures 4a-6c in which a user selects a tool icon, such
as the Phrase Viewing Tool (shown as a pair of eye glasses)
in figure 4a, with the cursor, and the image of the cursor
changes to the image of the tool icon (RBr5). It is argued
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