Appeal 2007-0493
Application 10/289,967
Patent 6,144,380
21. Claims 19-23 were rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Norwood, Friend, and Dickinson.
22. On August 5, 1996, Appellants filed a first Amendment (“the
First Amendment”) responding to the Examiner’s Non-Final Action.
23. The First Amendment amended independent claim 19, and
dependent claims 20, 22, and 23.
24. Amended claims 19 and 20 reproduced below (matter
underlined added by the First Amendment):
19. A method of processing handwriting written with a pointer
on a screen display of a pointer-based computer having a processor
connected to the screen display, a memory connected to the processor,
a pointer, contents of an electronic book, and one or more buttons, the
method comprising:
displaying a view of a current page of the book on the display
screen;
recognizing handwriting as one or more character strings when
said handwriting is written in handwriting recognition fields displayed
on the screen display, the one or more character strings being used to
identify at least one location within the book; and
displaying handwriting written on the current page of the book
after a mark-up button has been selected.
20. The method of claim 19 wherein the handwriting written
on the current page is removed when the mark-up button is selected.
25. After entry of the First Amendment, the application claims
were 19-23.
26. In the First Amendment, Appellants presented arguments with
respect to the patentability of amended claim 19.
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