Appeal No. 1999-1598
Application 08/668,656
claim 1, be converted into "a selectable display task icon."
This is not taught in Rothfield. Rothfield discloses that the
Query may be stored as if it were a table to be accessed later
(col. 8, lines 36-40) and may be opened by the Open View
Diagram (col. 4, lines 47-49), but does not describe
representing the Query as a display task icon. While it may
be known to represent files and application programs as icons,
such as icons on a Windows desktop, no evidence has been
provided and, in any case, such evidence would be
inappropriate to an anticipation rejection. The Examiner's
reliance on the icons in the palette 50 is not persuasive.
These icons are tools used to create the sequence of data
operations and do not represent a user-specified sequence of
data operations.
Therefore, the Examiner erred in finding that Rothfield
discloses the step of "producing a selectable display task
icon that represents the sequence of data operations."
Selecting the Task Icon and Executing the Data Operations
Because Rothfield does not disclose "producing a
selectable display task icon that represents the sequence of
data operations," it does not disclose the further step of
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