Appeal No. 95-2882
Application No. 07/996,775
(a) encapsulating status information and logic in the command
object for determining at least one menu item’s state;
(b) creating at least one menu item from a data structure in
the command object;
(c) initializing the at least one menu item by updating the
status information in the command object determinative of at
least one menu item’s state; and
(d) determining a system’s status and updating the at least
one menu item’s status information in the command object when
the at least one menu item is selected from a menu.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Franz, Object-Oriented Programming Featuring Actor, Chapters
1, 2 and 19 through 22 (Glenview, ILL, Scott, Foresman and
Company, 1990).
Khoshafian et al. (Khoshafian), Intelligent Offices Object-
Oriented Multi-Media Information Management in Client/Server
Architectures, pp. 235-304 (New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
1992).
Claims 1 through 26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Khoshafian in view of Franz.
Reference is made to the briefs and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
The obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 26 is
reversed because we are not convinced by the examiner’s
reasoning (Answer, pages 3 through 18) that the claimed
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