Appeal No. 2004-1063
Application No. 09/273,385
allegation that Roach does teach or suggest automatically and
consecutively indicating the selectable options in a timed
sequence. Appellants also argue that even if Roach is construed
as teaching the disputed limitation, there would have been no
motivation for the artisan to make the proposed modification of
White in order to reach the instant claimed subject matter.
We agree with appellants.
As pointed out by appellants, Roach deals with interactive
film, specifically with a viewer watching a film and interacting
therewith by clicking on a character to view the film from that
character’s perspective. This is described at column 6, lines
14-37, and, again, at locations in columns 7 and 8. While Roach
does appear to teach a display of selectable options, i.e., a
display of characters on which a user may click a mouse in order
to view a film from that character’s perspective, Roach does not
appear to teach or suggest the indication of such selectable
options, viz., the characters, automatically, consecutively and
in a timed sequence, as claimed.
The mere display of characters which are clickable by a
mouse does not, in our view, amount to a display of a plurality
of selectable options which are automatically and consecutively
indicating the selectable options in a timed sequence.
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