Appeal No. 2000-0772
Application No. 09/018,931
simply no persuasive showing that Dazey teaches that the help
control 66 is displayed in response to a detected status of a
control option, e.g., Show Index button 90. We do not agree
with the examiner’s position that help pane 70 is a control
option and, even if it could be so construed, the help control
66 is not displayed in response to a detected status of pane
70. Button 66 of Dazey is independently and continuously
displayed.
Concerning claim 3 and Dazey’s disclosure with respect to
Figure 7, the Help control button in dialog/message box 100 is
a help control that is displayed in response to a detected
status of a control option, a print button. However, the Help
control button is not displayed adjacent to a control option
as required by claim 1, from which claim 3 depends, because
“Print Error” in box 100 is an adjacent message, not an
adjacent control option.
Whereas we will not sustain the rejection of claim 3, we
will not sustain the rejection of claims 4-6 which depend
therefrom. Since claim 17 is grouped with claim 6 and defines
similar subject matter, we will not sustain the rejection of
claim 17, or claim 18, which depends from claim 17. Since
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