Appeal No. 2002-1971
Application 09/020,668
Group A(2): claim 17
The anticipation rejection of claim 17 falls with the
rejection of claim 15. The rejection of claim 17 is reversed.
Group B(1): claims 65, 83, 86, 93, and 95
Claim 65 is directed to the method of authoring using an
authoring tool such as tool 600 in Fig. 40 (see description at
Br6-7). The authoring tool may include multiple lenses (e.g.,
lenses 620, 622, and 624) that function as "user input elements"
through which a user (author) inputs information associated with
different levels of abstraction; first and second lenses are
claimed. Specific levels of abstraction may be associated with
different lenses, so that upon input of a new information element
into a lens by a user, that information element is automatically
associated with the particular level of abstraction associated
with that lens.
Appellant argues that Lucas does not disclose the input of
information into a user input element displayed in a three
dimensional workspace (Br13). These limitations are found in
paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of claim 65.
Claim 65 recites, in part, "(a) concurrently presenting a
user with first and second user input elements, the first and
second user input elements respectively associated with first and
second levels of abstraction, and the first and second user input
elements positioned within a three dimensional workspace to
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