Appeal No. 2004-1063
Application No. 09/273,385
The examiner indicates that White does not specifically
disclose the automatic indication of options in an automatic
timed sequence, but the selections and options are made
consecutively and sequentially through time. The examiner
further alleges that highlighting is performed by White for ease
of user navigation and selection of options in a user interface.
The examiner then relies on Roach for a showing of an
automatic indication of options in an automatic timed sequence,
pointing to the abstract, column 1, lines 60-68, column 2, lines
1-12, column 4, lines 7-17 and 25-55, and column 5, lines 53-68,
of Roach. The examiner alleges that this, too, is done for the
ease of user navigation and selection of options in a user
interface.
The examiner then concludes that it would have been
“obvious...to have this automatic feature for the selectable
options in White...because it would allow ease of user navigation
and selection of options in a user interface” (final rejection-
page 3).
For their part, appellants contend that while they are in
agreement with the examiner as to White’s failure to teach or
suggest automatically and consecutively indicating the selectable
option in a timed sequence, they dispute the examiner’s
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