Appeal No. 95-1599
Application 08/062,492
S.Ct. 397 (1997), appellants’ disclosure is only required to
teach those skilled in the art how to make and use the claimed
invention without undue experimentation, and the scope of the
claims must bear a reasonable correlation to the scope of
enablement provided by the specification to persons of ordinary
skill in the art. Since appellants’ claimed invention is enabled
by the disclosure, the rejection of claims 8 through 13 and 19
through 32 under the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 is
reversed.
Turning to the prior art rejection, Leblang discloses the
use of configuration management in a support system for Computer-
Aided Software Engineering (CASE) applications. A feature of the
support system is transparent retrieval of named versions of
program sequences/modules on a line-by-line basis. A modifi-
cation record is maintained for all changes to the modules in the
system build library by version numbers. An advantage of the
support system is that different programmers can simultaneously
use different versions of program modules for multiple concurrent
system work on the different versions (Figure 4, and column 8,
lines 50 through 53). Inasmuch as a line between two points can
be a graph, we agree with the examiner (Answer, page 8) that
“[t]he claim language ‘graph’ is so broad that it reads on the
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