Appeal No. 2003-2010
Application 09/150,549
associating said predefined process with said movable
cursor within said data processing system in response to a
first user input; and
executing said predefined process on any suitable
object within said data processing system in response to
each subsequent graphic selection of a suitable object and
depression of said at least one button by a user utilizing
said movable cursor until said association is disabled by a
user.
THE REFERENCE
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Buxton et al. (Buxton) 5,798,752 August 25, 1998
(effective filing date July 21, 1993)
THE REJECTION
Claims 1, 3-7, and 9-12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Buxton. With respect to
claims 3, 4, 9, and 10, the examiner takes Official Notice that
feedback, such as an error message, was well known in computer
operation as in U.S. Patent 6,061,058 (Paper No. 17, p. 3).
We refer to the non-final Office action (Paper No. 17)
(pages referred to as "R__"), the final rejection (Paper No. 19)
(pages referred to as "FR__"), and the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 26) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the
examiner's rejection, and to the appeal brief (Paper No. 25)
(pages referred to as "Br__") for a statement of appellants'
arguments thereagainst.
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