Appeal No. 95-4605
Application 08/076,285
specified parameters, as in the variational dimensioning
possible in HP-DESIGN, with the set of geometric
specification functions requring [sic] a variable also
including the ARRAY command of AutoCAD (without repetition
number specified), because this enhances the instruction set
of HP-DESIGN to include not only variable dimensions but
variable numbers of repetitions as well.
Stated differently, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary
skill in the art of designing CAD systems to store the ARRAY
command of AutoCAD in unexecuted form with the parameters left as
variables, or partly assigned, given the teaching of HP-DESIGN of
storing other types of design commands in unexecuted form with
the parameters left as variables. The ARRAY command could be
stored as an instruction of the generic design program: when the
program is executed, the CAD system would respond as if the
command had been typed in by the user and would ask for the same
parameter information shown in AutoCAD. It is again noted that
the difference between the subject matter of claim 1 and AutoCAD
is that AutoCAD discloses the ARRAY command being executed
immediately, whereas claim 1 requires the command to be stored
and executed later.
Appellant argues that the AutoCAD reference cannot be
modified to provide variable replications, referring to the
declaration under 35 U.S.C. § 132 by appellant, Prof. Dr. Roller.
Prof. Dr. Roller's declaration states (pages 1-2):
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