Appeal No. 2000-0358
Application No. 08/678,409
We first note that the Examiner has misinterpreted the scope of
claim 1 by stating that claim 1 recites, "acquiring the new
access right by causing the first object to interact with a
second object representing virtual input device." Examiner's
Answer, page 5, lines 15-16. In actuality, claim 1 recites
"acquiring said new access right by said virtual input device by
causing the first object to interact with a second object
representing access rights of said virtual input device"
(emphasis added).
Second as Appellant points out, Bly discloses in column 17,
lines 3-15 and column 18, lines 7-12 that the acquisition of the
second form of access rights or a new access right that allows
the user to make changes to an entry is obtained through a
database service. Since claim 1 requires that the acquisition
be done by a virtual input device, we find that Bly does not
disclose the step of acquiring a new access right using a virtual
input device.
In addition, there is no discussion in column 17, lines 16-
68 of Bly about interacting the first object (lock icon 92) with
a second object to acquire the new access right. While citing to
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