Appeal No. 2000-0765
Application No. 08/670,929
filing date, the copyright date tends to indicate that the information was available to
skilled artisans prior to appellants' filing date of June 26, 1996. Appellants provide no
rationale for challenging the date of the reference or to question whether it was an
internal TALIGENT document at that time. Therefore, we will accept the 1995 copyright
date.1 (See generally In re Epstein, 31 USPQ2d 1817 (Fed. Cir. 1994).)
1 In an attempt to document the date of the TALIGENT reference, we located a book entitled
"INSIDE TALIGENT TECHNOLOGY," by Sean Cotter, published by Addison-Wesley Publishing
Company, copyright date 1995 and Library of Congress date stamp July 11, 1995.
Chapter 2 at “More choices for users" was located at website:
http://www.wildcrest.com/Potel/Portfolio/InsideTaligentTechnology/WW42.htm
What kinds of interactions might be possible if telephones and computers could share
some basic information about the people who use them to communicate? Suppose you
are an illustrator and I need to talk to you about a drawing you have prepared for a book
I'm writing. Instead of printing out the drawing and arranging a face-to-face meeting with
you, I can open the drawing on my computer, then dial your number by dragging an icon
that represents you over an icon that represents my telephone.
When you answer the phone, our computers also connect with each other automatically,
and the drawing document on my screen appears in a window on your screen. Any
changes you make to the document are instantly visible to me as you make them, and
anything I do to the document is instantly visible to you; we are sharing the actual
document in real time, not just a bitmapped image. When I move the pointer, your pointer
moves, and vice versa. We can both talk on the telephone while treating our computer
screens as if they were one shared piece of paper, pointing, making notes, and making
corrections just as we would in a face-to-face meeting.
A copy of Chapter 3 - A Human Interface for Organizations, p 75-109 is enclosed with the decision and
placed in the file. Specifically, page 91 discloses similar teachings that a user may embed a Business
Card object in a document and drop it into a form to fill in information about the person automatically, or
drop it on a telephone to dial the person's phone number. This is basically a teaching of dragging,
dropping and initiating a information function as a result of the drop. We have not applied this reference,
but make it of record for the examiner's consideration.
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