Appeal No. 1998-3126 9
Application No. 08/479,569
which is not precisely the same. We find that, as drafted,
claim 54 is broad enough to read on selecting a function at a
time when the help screen has been selected by the help key F1,
or selecting an item (function) from the menu and then pressing
F1 to see the description of the item.
In addition, the examiner asserts that under a more narrow
interpretation of the term "simultaneous," that the differences
between Microsoft and the claim language would have been obvious,
and provides reasons, in support thereof (answer, pages 4 and
11). The examiner's position (brief, page 11) is that "toggled
sequential selections as in Microsoft and physically simultaneous
selections were art recognized equivalents at the time of the
invention in the arts of operator interfaces." Appellants have
not addressed this obviousness argument. In addition, we observe
that appellants' specification (page 40) recites that by
simultaneously selecting a pushbutton while holding down a
keyboard help key, a description of the selected function is
provided. Thus, we find that the help key and selected function
do not need to be simultaneously initiated, but rather that the
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