Appeal No. 2004-0962
Application No. 09/234,255
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A progress monitor comprising:
a progress area used to indicate the progress of a
process being monitored;
a progress indicator that progressively divides the
progress area into a first part of the progress area and a
second part of the progress area, where the first part of
the progress area corresponds to the amount of completion of
the process being monitored;
information, in addition to the progress of the
process, progressively becoming visible in the first part of
the progress area as the first part of the progress area
becomes larger.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Marks 6,097,390 Aug. 1, 2000
(filed Apr. 4, 1997)
Nielsen 6,337,699 Jan. 8, 2002
(filed Jun. 27, 1996)
MS Outlook 97.
Claims 1 through 6 and 8 through 10 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Marks in view of
Nielsen.
Claim 7 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Marks in view of Nielsen and MS Outlook 97.
Reference is made to the briefs (paper numbers 20 and 22)
and the answer (paper number 21) for the respective positions of
the appellants and the examiner.
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