Appeal 2007-0493
Application 10/289,967
Patent 6,144,380
35. Also, on February 19, 1997, Appellants After Final Amendment
was entered as a Preliminary Amendment (“the Preliminary Amendment”)
in newly filed original Application 08/801,251.
36. The Preliminary Amendment amended independent claim 19.
Dependent claim 20 was canceled. Amended claim 19 is reproduced below
(matter underlined added and matter in [brackets] deleted by the After Final
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; and
hiding all handwriting and associated text written with said
pointer on the current page when the mark-up button is re-selected.
37. After entry of the Preliminary Amendment, the application
claims were 19 and 21-23.
38. In the Preliminary Amendment, Appellants presented
arguments with respect to the patentability of amended claim 19.
(Preliminary Amendment 2-5).
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