Appeal No. 2004-1460
Application No. 09/495,217
performing the recited functional limitations. RCA Corp. v.
Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ
385, 388 (Fed. Cir.), cert. dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228 (1984); W.L.
Gore & Assocs., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1554, 220
USPQ 303, 313 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851
(1984).
Appellant has indicated that these claims stand or fall
together as a single group (brief, page 4), and we will consider
claim 12 as the representative claim for this group. The
examiner has indicated how he reads the invention of claim 12 on
the disclosure of Lindhorst (answer, pages 3 and 4). Appellant
argues that Lindhorst fails to disclose a window having both
object and task panes for launching tasks, in which a task is
performed responsive to selection from the task pane, and in
which the list of tasks displayed in the task pane is dependent
on the object selected in the object pane. Specifically,
appellant argues that the items in Lindhorst cited by the
examiner to meet the claimed object and task panes fail to
satisfy the claimed invention. Appellant asserts that the
actions displayed in Lindhorst are not tasks which are performed
responsive to a selection. Appellant also asserts that actions
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