Appeal 2007-2127
Reexamination Control No. 90/006,621
discloses inserting a pause mark at the end of a source code buffer line or
removing an old pause mark by substituting a blank for the pause mark, and
not inserting between characters (Final Rejection 45 ¶ II.3(S)).
As to group 36 (claim 81) and group 37 (claim 83), the Examiner
finds that the limitations of an "editor comprising a character insertion
routine and also a control code editing routine, said character insertion
routine including instructions executable before the next interrupt operation
to enable the routine to relinquish control of the central processor upon
completion of its task of inserting a character" (claim 81) and an "editing
routine for performing conventional editing operations, said conventional
editing operations including conventional operations for moving the cursor
so as to enable the operator to select any location in the buffer where the
next character will be inserted by the character insertion routine" (claim 83)
lack written description support because the '604 patent does not disclose a
full screen editor which allows insertion of characters (Final Rejection 47-48
¶ II.3(Y)). The Examiner also finds that "there is no teaching as to
relinquishing control of the central processor upon completion of its task of
inserting a character" (Final Rejection 48).
Patent Owner argues that the original 1994 application discloses that
the editor of the illustrative embodiment is a "screen editor." It is argued
that it would be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that each
alphanumeric character entered at the keyboard is entered into a different
location in a source code buffer (unless one intentionally overwrites a
character), which corresponds to a location on the screen, and that the user
can select at which memory location to insert or delete a character (Br. 85).
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