Appeal No. 1998-3063
Application 08/632,223
determining that a first command to move was issued from a pointing device;
passing the first command to an object in the compound graphical object, the object
owning display space encompassing a pointer icon hot spot;
determining a lowest level object in the compound object, wherein each object receiving
the first command determines whether the object has a child object owning display space
encompassing the hot-spot and if so passes the first command to the child object, until a
lowest level object owning display space encompassing the hot spot is found; and
presenting a selection within the lowest level object in the graphical user interface.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Bertram et al. (Bertram) 5,198,802 Mar. 30, 1993
Meisel 5,297,253 Mar. 22, 1994
(filing date January 9, 1992)
Claims 1, 4 through 6, 12, 15 through 17, 24 and 27 through 29 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by Meisel. Claims 3, 14 and 26 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Meisel in view of
Bertram.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the examiner, reference is made
to the brief and the answer for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
Because we reverse the rejection of representative independent claim 1, and because
corresponding language is presented in independent claims 12 and 24, we
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