Appeal No. 2000-0467
Application 08/511,645
wherein the type of drag and drop operation performed depends
upon a plurality of factors.” See page 7, lines 3-6 of the
Brief. Appellant finally argues that Berry states on page 450
that,
‘dragging a data object, container object, or device
object to a workplace container results in moving the
source object into the target container.’ Later in the
same column, when discussing containers that are
outside the current workspace, Berry states the
following: ‘If the target is a device that provides
containment behavior, the source object is copied into
the target container. For example, dragging an object
to a . . . folder on a diskette causes the source
object to be copied into the target object. (emphasis
added).’ Thus, it can be seen that the outcome is
dependent upon whether the source of the object is in
the same workspace as the destination for the object.
In contrast, the operation performed on the object
being manipulated, in accordance with the present
invention, is a MOVE (when the destination is a
container object), whether or not the source document
or media volume is the same as the destination.
(Emphasis added). See page 7, lines 9-21 of the Brief.
As pointed out by our reviewing court, we must first
determine the scope of the claims. “[T]he name of the game is
the claim.” In re Hiniker Co., 150 F.3d 1362, 1369, 47 USPQ2d
1523, 1529 ( Fed. Cir. 1998).
We note that Appellant’s claim 1 recites the following:
determining whether said second object is either a
service object which performs a service that provides a
computational result on data or a container object;
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