Appeal No. 1999-1591
Application No. 08/665,616
We agree with appellants. The examiner maintains that Cline teaches the automatic
resizing of the window and relies on the statement in Cline that the system “dynamically
reshapes the window.” (See answer at page 3 citing Cline at col. 3, lines 19-21 and
22-27 and col. 5, lines 7-40.) While we agree with the examiner that Cline states that the
reshaping is "dynamically" performed, in our opinion, this pertains only to the dynamic
nature of the window as it is being scrolled by the user and the additional portions of the
window to be displayed are reshaped as the scrolling is requested. Here, this is in
response to the user actuation of the reshape icons 305 and 306. With reference to the
examiner’s reliance on col. 5, Cline states that “FIG. 6 is a pictorial view of the resizable
windows of FIG. 3, showing the scroll bar feature according to the preferred embodiment.
Referring to FIGS. 5 and 6, after reshaping the window at 565 to the shrink wrap mode at
570, the user makes a determination as to whether he/she desires to scroll the text in the
window.” If no scrolling is done, the user decides if the original window is desired and the
original window is retrieved. Otherwise, control returns to 570 monitoring a scroll
command.
In our opinion, Cline is concerned only with the display of a static window (of text)
which is solely for display and user viewing thereof in the preferred mode. Cline is silent
as to any modification of the displayed text, and contrary to the examiner's statements
concerning the inherent ability to delete text in a text-based system (final rejection at page
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