Appeal No. 2000-1323
Application No. 08/923,474
examiner points to Figure 7 of Bayless for a disclosure of such a collecting step, stating
that this step is taught by Bayless in that Bayless “illustrates objects that may be displayed
and created by the user of the GUI object builder [see Fig. 7] [answer-pages 4-5].
We, like appellant, have reviewed Figure 7 of Bayless and can find nothing therein
indicating that Bayless collects information from a communication management server and
displays the information by a graphical object. In fact, the description of Figure 7, in toto,
appears at the bottom of column 12 of Bayless:
FIG. 7 illustrates several higher level objects that have been created
by a designer and duplicated in Window2 as shown. Specifically, FIG. 7
illustrates a number of low level objects such as the numeric labels and
buttons. These low level objects have been grouped into a high level object
of a window labeled “Window2".
Clearly, this paragraph contains nothing which would teach the collection of information
from a communication management server and displays the information by a graphical
object. In the examiner’s response to appellant’s argument, at pages 16-17 of the answer,
the examiner merely repeats the reasoning by pointing to Figure 7 of Bayless with no
further explanation.
Accordingly, the examiner has not established a prima facie case of obviousness
with regard to the subject matter of independent claim 1. Thus, we will not sustain the
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