Appeal No. 2005-0871
Application 09/248,736
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 3-22, 24-43 and 45-63 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, written description
requirement, and under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Robinson in view of Glasser and Cotugno.
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections.
Rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph
The examiner argues that the appellants’ originally-filed
specification does not provide written descriptive support for
the limitation in each of the appellants’ independent claims of
“saving the filter and the specified selection criteria” (answer,
page 3).
The appellants’ specification discloses that 1) a customized
tree creator (118) creates, in response to user input from a
displayed Add Folder to Tree window, a filter for selecting an
object from an original tree to be contained in a customized
tree, 2) the filter specifies selection criteria to select
objects to be contained in the selected object in the customized
tree, and 3) the customized tree creator applies the filter to
create the customized tree with the selected object and the
objects to be contained therein (page 14, line 28 - page 15,
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