Appeal No. 2004-0324
Application 09/387,350
determining whether said mouse event is associated with a
text entry field;
upon selection of the text entry field and prior to the user
inputting text into said text entry field, displaying a plurality
of mouse selectable text entry options, each of said options
being predefined based on a characteristic of said text entry
field; and
upon selection of one of said text entry options, copying
code corresponding to a selected option into said text entry
field.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
www.dell.com from 10/7/1997 as accessed through Internet Archive,
Way Back Machine, www.archive.org. (referred to as Dell)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, as disclosed in Windows-Help.Net:
AutoComplete for Passwords & Forms.; www.windows-help.net/
windows98/ie50-08.htm, March 29, 1999 (referred to as NET).
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, as disclosed by Black, Gordon
in Getting It Completed - automatically. Microsoft Corp.,
www.microsoft.com/windows98/usingwindows/work/articles/903Mar/
Autocomplete.asp, May 19, 1999 (referred to as Black).
All claims on appeal stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
As evidence of obviousness as to claims 1-5, 7, 9-13 and 15, the
examiner relies upon Black in view of NET, further in view of
Dell. As to claims 6, 8, 14 and 16, the examiner relies upon
this combination of references, further in view of IE4, a
reference not part of the prior art listed in Topic 9 at pages
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