Mirror Worlds, LLC v. Apple, Inc.

Filing 251

RESPONSE in Opposition re #229 MOTION for Summary Judgment OF INVALIDITY OF US PATENT NO. 6,613,101 filed by Apple, Inc.. (Attachments: #1 Text of Proposed Order, #2 Declaration of Steven K. Feiner Ph.D., #3 Exhibit 1 to Declaration of Steven K. Feiner Ph.D., #4 Declaration of Jeffrey G. Randall in Opposition to Motion for Summary Judgment, #5 Exhibit 1 to Randall Declaration, #6 Exhibit 2 to Randall Declaration, #7 Exhibit 3 to Randall Declaration, #8 Exhibit 4 to Randall Declaration, #9 Exhibit 5 to Randall Declaration, #10 Exhibit 6 to Randall Declaration, #11 Exhibit 7 to Randall Declaration, #12 Exhibit 8 to Randall Declaration, #13 Exhibit 9 to Randall Declaration, #14 Exhibit 10 to Randall Declaration, #15 Exhibit 11 to Randall Declaration, #16 Exhibit 12 to Randall Declaration)(Randall, Jeffrey)

Mirror Worlds, LLC v. Apple, Inc.

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Levine because of the taught advantages of using content as the c r i t e r i a for document aggregation.

W i t h r e s p e c t t o d e p e n d e n t c l a i m s 9 , 1 0 a n d 34 t o 3 6 , depending from claim 8, vectors and measures o f similarity are shown by Vale's word indexes, and color indication i s shown inherently as a well known embodiment by operation of a display controller in a color environment.

8.

C l a i m s 8 1 t o 8 6 a r e r e j e c t e d u n d e r 35 U . S . C .

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103 as being

unpatentable over Nicol et al.

(U.S. Pat. No. 5287448 2/94) i n

view of Levine et al. as applied above. w i t h r e s p e c t t o i n d e p e n d e n t c l a i m 8 1 a n d d e p e n d e n t c l a i m 82 and 83, Nicol shows

graphical iconic collection representation i s shown
fig. 2.

displaying indicia o f document by selecting position from representation i s shown f i g . 2. r e g a r d l e s s o f p o s i t i o n on r e p r e s e n t a t i o n i s s h o w n f i g .
2 in which help i s provided regardless of position.

concurrent adjacent display o f representation and indicia i s shown f i g . 2.
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purpose of presenting documents. I t would have been obvious to one of ordinary s k i l l in the a r t a t the time the i n v e n t i o n w a s made t o a p p l y L e v i n e ' s d o c u m e n t c o l l e c t i o n t o Nicol's help system because of the generic use of a help system such as Nicol's to any graphic interface such as Levine's. D e p e n d e n t c l a i m s 84 t o 86 a r e s U b s t a n t i a l l y s i m i l a r t o c l a i m s 81 t o 83 e x c e p t f o r a p p l y i n g t b m U l t i p l e i n s t a n c e s inherent in the applied reference and are similarly rejected.

9.

C l a i m s 31 t o 33 a r e r e j e c t e d u n d e r 35 U . S . C .

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103 a s b e i n g

unpatentable over Reed e t a l .

( U . S . P a t . No. 5 2 4 1 6 7 1 8 / 9 3 ) .

w i t h r e s p e c t t o i n d e p e n d e n t c l a i m 31 a n d d e p e n d e n t c l a i m s 32 and 33,

graphical display of documents and document collections
i s s h o w n f i g . 23 a n d a b s t r a c t .

creating a document collection using a f i r s t document as a sample for said collection and searching for next d o c u m e n t b a s e d on f i r s t d o c u m e n t i s s h o w n f i g . 5 i n
w h i c h a r t i c l e s a r e s e l e c t e d a n d d i s p l a y e d b a s e d on contents. I t i s noted that fig. 5 originates from fig. 4 w h i c h b e g i n s w i t h a t e r m e n t e r e d on a s c r e e n . T h e

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