Appeal No. 2000-0772
Application No. 09/018,931
At page 4 of the brief, appellant acknowledges that
Dazey’s Show Index button 90 illustrated in Figure 4 is a
control option. It is argued by appellant that although the
control option 90 is disposed adjacent to the help control
(Show Help button 66) as defined in claim 1, the help control
66 does not reference the control option for obtaining help
information about the Show Index button. Rather, it is urged
that button 66 is intended to reference application window 44
and/or workspace 50, which are not control options, for
obtaining help information about the window and/or workspace
in help pane 70.
In the second full paragraph at page 11 of the answer,
the examiner’s response is that in Dazey’s invention the Show
Help button 66 is displayed adjacent to workspace 50 “from
which is (sic:it) can assist the user with context specific,
step-by-step, instruction”.
We are not persuaded by appellant’s argument, even though
we agree with appellant that window 44 and workspace 50 are
not control options. At column 4, lines 46-53, Dazey
discloses that the application is configured to provide help
to a user during creation of the work and that the help
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