Appeal No. 2001-1308 Application No. 08/354,491 setting attributes of a window column; changing a width of a window column; assigning an image list to a window; setting some or all of an item's attributes; preparing a window for adding items; moving an item to a specified position in the window; changing a state of an item in the window; changing text associated with an item; setting a background color of text in the window; setting a text color of a window; sorting items using an application-defined comparison function; and updating an item. The prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is: Robert Cowart, Mastering Windows™ 3.1 Special Edition, SYBEX, 1993, pp. 1-964. (Cowart) Claims 1 and 2 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Cowart. Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 14, mailed February 18, 1998) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and to appellants' Brief (Paper No. 4Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007