Appeal No. 2001-1073
Application No. 08/747,356
manner storage means, however asserts (answer at page 5) that
“[i]t would have been obvious . . . to have incorporated Kogan’s
edit-time storage means into the Peterson’s multimedia editing
system, . . . .”
Furthermore, the Examiner recognizes that Peterson does not
teach the limitation of connecting a data icon associated with a
node icon of one presentation screen to a node icon of another
presentation screen, however asserts (answer at page 5) that
“[i]t would have been obvious . . . to displayed (sic, display)
the links between the data icon and the node icon, since Hansen
explicitly suggested the feature.”
Appellant argues (brief at page 4) that “[n]owhere does
Hansen teach or suggest that the screen icons, boxes 410, 412,
414, have disposed therein, icons representing screen objects
(data icons).”
Appellant further argues (id.) that “[f]irst, Hansen teaches
a fundamentally different way of editing screen shifts than
Peterson. In Peterson, a screen display is used in designating
links between presentation screens. By contrast, Hansen employs
a dialog box shown in Fig. 6, for designating link between
presentations screens. Second, . . . [t]o avoid cluttering the
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