Appeal 2007-0493
Application 10/289,967
Patent 6,144,380
claims 24-30 of the grandparent), directed to searching through data
according to a character string selected by pointer interaction.
14. Grandparent application 08/147,143 ultimately issued as
U.S. Patent 6,243,071, on June 5, 2001.
15. The second divisional application ultimately issued as
U.S. Patent 5,802,516, on September 1, 1998.
D. Prosecution history of the first divisional and “original” applications
16. Simultaneously with the second divisional, Appellants filed a
first divisional Application 08/454,061 to prosecute the invention of
group II, claims 19-23 (identical to claims 19-23 of the grandparent),
directed to recognizing/digitizing hand writing in an electronic book
mark-up operation.
17. On April 1, 1996, the Examiner entered a Non-Final Office
Action (“Non-Final Action”).
18. Claims 19-23 were rejected on various grounds.
19. The prior art relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the
claims was:
Norwood US 5,063,600 Nov. 5, 1991
Friend US 5,455,901 Oct. 3, 1995
Dickinson US 5,500,929 Mar. 19, 1996
20. Claims 20 and 23 were rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as being indefinite.
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