Appeal No. 2000-0772
Application No. 09/018,931
option for obtaining help information about the control
option.
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Tozuka 5,710,898 Jan. 20, 1998
Dazey et al. (Dazey) 5,715,415 Feb. 03, 1998
Claims 1-6 and 8-23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(e) as anticipated by Dazey.
Claim 7 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Dazey in view of Tozuka.
The respective positions of the examiner and the
appellant with regard to the propriety of these rejections are
set forth in the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 9) and the
appellant’s brief (Paper No. 8).
Appellant’s Invention
The invention is described at pages 2 and 3 of the brief.
The Dazey Patent
In Figure 4, Dazey discloses a help pane 70 positioned
adjacent to a workspace 50 that is accessed by a Show Help
control button 66 in the status bar 64. Upon activation of
the Show Help control button, the application window 44 is
partitioned to define a help pane for showing the help content
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