Appeal 2007-0145
Application 10/183,797
dependent claims, "inactivating" by "minimizing" or "closing" a protected
window requires that a specific window is inactivated, which is not shown
by any of Hale, Maddalozzo, or Shinya. Thus, while Shinya is a very good
reference that discloses minimizing and closing an inactive window, it does
not disclose inactivating a specific window after a time period. For these
reasons, the rejection of claims 3, 4, 12, and 13 is reversed. The rejection of
claims 20-22 is also reversed because these claims depend on claim 3.
Dependent claims 23, 24, and 27 recite "reactivating the inactivated
protected window by activating a status indicator" of the inactivated
window. The "status indicators" refer to the status buttons 114 and 116 on
the status bar 110 (also known as a taskbar) corresponding to the windows
105a and 105b in Figures 2A-2D. When a window 105a is minimized, the
status button 114 appears on the status bar 110 (Fig. 2C) with a certain
appearance, and when window 105a is closed there is no status button on the
status bar (Fig. 2D) (Specification ¶ 0034). An inactive window is
reactivated by activating the status button. The Examiner took Official
Notice that it was well known in the art that windows are represented on the
taskbar by icons and that windows were reactivated by activating these icons
(Final Rejection 17; Answer 17). Appellants argue that the Examiner was
required to submit a reference or an affidavit to establish facts within his
personal knowledge (Reply Br. 2-3).
The use of status buttons on the taskbar (or status bar) in a windows
environment to represent windows was so notoriously well known that it
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