Appeal No. 2002-1971
Application 09/020,668
combining the teachings "to display the system of Lucas in the
second window of Rowe or Acrobat to allow the display of a
selected area of the document icons of the first window, because
Rowe teaches above the random access of document pages using the
miniaturized document icons" (EA13).
Rowe and Acrobat Reader are relied on for the same feature:
a "thumbnails" window 48 contains icons 50 each of which
represents a separate page in the viewed portable electronic
document (Rowe, Fig. 2b; col. 12, lines 29-32). The user may
select an icon to display the corresponding page in the view
window 39 (Rowe, col. 12, lines 32-34). The currently-displayed
page may have a highlighted label (Rowe, col. 12, lines 34-36),
which is not visible in Fig. 2b of Rowe, but which is shown in
Acrobat Reader. As noted by appellant, the icons in Rowe and
Adobe Reader do not show any content. Although we know from our
own personal experience with Adobe Reader that the icons show
miniature versions of the page (which are not readable, for
example, a line of text on the page being represented by a line
in the icon), this is not actually shown or described in the
references. Thus, the examiner errs in stating that the icons
contain a miniaturized display of content. In any case, we do
not understand how the examiner proposes to modify Lucas in view
of Rowe and Acrobat Reader to arrive at the claimed invention.
The examiner considers the thumbnails windows 48 in Fig. 2b of
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