Appeal No. 2004-0468
Application 09/754,555
Appellants argue at page 6 of the brief, “Mikan merely
teaches that when user finger position on the touch screen stops,
cursor position stops without generating a mouse-click event.”
We have fully reviewed the Mikan reference and we do not agree
with the Appellants’ argument. Mikan also teaches that a mouse
click closure is generated when touching of a zone on the touch
screen is detected. See Mikan at column 18, lines 14-23. We
find that this section of Mikan teaches the desirability of
“duplicating mouse switch functions” (line 15) and provides more
than sufficient motivation to also duplicate the mouse switch
function of “mouse button up” upon the detection of cessation of
contact as taught by Tannenbaum at lines 18-20 of column 13.
At page 2 of the reply brief, Appellants argue “the
conclusion that modifying the Mikan method using the Tannenbaum
approach set forth above in that upon detecting the cessation of
contact with a touch screen (lifting the user’s finger from the
touch screen or liftoff) must generate a mouse click event, let
alone a particular mouse click event only, is incorrectly drawn.”
We reiterate that, as discussed above, there is nothing in claim
1 that requires the cessation “always map to a single mouse
equivalent command.” Also, we find that the plain language of
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