Appeal No. 2002-1771
Application 09/204,914
in the operation" in claim 1. A "file" is defined as: "A
collection of bytes stored as an individual entity. All data on
disk is stored as a file with an assigned file name that is
unique within the folder (directory) it resides in."
TechEncyclopedia at http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia. Thus, a
file object and a directory object would both be "representative"
of a file. The menu items in Siefert are representative of
drawing functions, not files. Thus, initially we find that
Siefert does not teach "a plurality of interactive objects,
respectively representative of substantially all the files in the
operation." Nevertheless, we address the address the examiner's
rejection assuming the "files" limitation is met by a menu item.
Appellants argue (Br4-5) that Siefert does not disclose
"displaying on said display screen, said set of high
interactivity objects separate from but simultaneously with said
displayed plurality of objects [representing all the files in the
operation]." It is argued that "[i]n Siefert, it is not the
POINT, LINE,... TEXT menu that is monitored , and CENTER & RADIUS
OBJECT 6B is not selected in response to monitoring of the
activity of the objects in the POINT, LINE,... TEXT menu" (Br5).
It is argued (Br5): "Thus if the Examiner's argument were to have
any validity, then the selected object 6B of Fig. 3 would have
had to have been displayed simultaneously but separate from
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