Appeal No. 2002-1971
Application 09/020,668
OPINION
Grouping of claims
Appellant identifies the following grouping of claims, with
the individual claims within each claim grouping standing or
falling together (Br8).
Group A(1): claims 15 and 16
Group A(2): claim 17
Group B(1): claims 65, 83, 86, 93, and 95
Group B(2): claims 84, 87, 88, and 90
Group B(3): claims 85 and 91
Group C(1): claim 18
Group C(2): claim 20
Group C(3): claims 89 and 94
Group D: claim 92
Group A(1): claims 15 and 16
Claim 15 is directed to the method of accessing information
from a body of knowledge using first and second lenses displaying
first and second information elements, where different filter
criteria are associated with the first and second lenses (see
description at Br2-4). By associating different filter criteria
with different lenses, different views of the body of knowledge
can be concurrently presented to a reader.
The examiner finds that Lucas teaches a three-dimensional
workspace as recited in the preamble, concurrently displaying
first and second information elements in first and second lenses
as recited in paragraph (a), and visually linking the first and
second information elements by orienting the first and second
lenses along an abstraction axis as recited in paragraph (b),
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