Appeal No. 2002-0857
Application No. 09219,876
will not sustain the rejection of these claims or claim 8 under
35 U.S.C. 102(e). In the case of claim 11, rather than
specifically reciting the display of a message input window if a
first particular input is detected when said first input window
is displayed, the claim calls for displaying a first input window
when the screen saver image is displayed and when input is
detected from an input device. While this recitation, alone, may
be met by the simple display of a password dialog box in a
conventional screen saver technique, claim 11 goes on to require
a password inputting module to display a message input window if
a first particular input is detected, a message inputting module
for storing message data input while the message input window is
displayed and a message outputting module for displaying the
stored message data when the first input window is displayed if a
second particular input is detected. It is unclear how the
examiner is attempting to read Franklin to provide for this
message outputting module and first and second “particular
inputs.” If Franklin’s password dialog box is the claimed “first
input window” and Franklin’s note-take user interface or client
area is the claimed “message input window,” there is nothing in
Franklin that would suggest that the stored message data may be
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