Appeal No. 2003-2010
Application 09/150,549
OPINION
The claims are grouped to stand or fall together (Br4).
Claim 1 is taken as representative.
The examiner finds that Buxton discloses a "a data
processing system having a keyboard, a plurality of objects and a
pointing device having at least one button and an associated
movable cursor displayed within said data processing system," for
example, in Fig. 1 (R2). The examiner finds that the limitation,
"specifying a predefined process within said data processing
system said predefined process comprising a plurality of
keystrokes, said plurality of keystrokes specifying a user
defined executable process which may be applied to one or more
objects within said data processing system," reads on the macro
creation described at column 23, lines 50-61 (R2; EA3). The
examiner finds that the limitation, "associating said predefined
process with said movable cursor within said data processing
system in response to a first user input," reads on placing the
cursor in a tool mode described at column 26, lines 1-22 (FR2).
The examiner finds that the limitation, "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" reads on
depression of a button by a user using the cursor, referring to
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