Appeal 2007-0493
Application 10/289,967
Patent 6,144,380
25. A method of claim 24 wherein the step of selecting a
character string by interaction of the pointer with the display screen
includes the following substeps:
displaying a find dialog box on the display screen, the dialog
box having a field for accepting handwriting; and
recognizing handwriting written in the field as the character
string.
9. On May 19, 1995, the Examiner entered a Non-Final Office
Action which included a “restriction requirement” and documented
Appellants’ “provisional election” with traverse made in a telephone
conversation with the Examiner on May 1, 1995.
10. The restriction requirement indicated that grandparent
application 08/147,143 contained three independent and distinct inventions
as follows:
I. Claims 1-18 and 31-38 drawn to a graphical user interface for
use with an electronic book;
II. Claims 19-23 drawn to a method of recognizing/digitizing
hand writing; and
III. Claims 24-30 drawn to a method of searching through data
according to a character string.
11. Appellants’ provisional election with traverse elected to
prosecute the invention of group I, claims 1-18 and 31-38.
12. Appellants failed to perfect the traversal.
13. Instead, Appellants filed a second divisional Application
08/454,423 to prosecute the invention of group III, claims 24-30 (identical to
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