Appeal No. 1997-1238
Application 08/169,570
Kimberly-Clark Corp., 713 F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789
(Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1026 (1984).
Upon a careful review of Van de Lavoir, we find that
Van de Lavoir fails to teach a method, a data processing
system, or a computer program product for graphically
indicating dynamic data links between a plurality of objects
in a data processing system. Furthermore, we fail to find
that Van de Lavoir teaches displaying at least one connections
icon for each object capable of dynamic data exchange using
dynamic data links. Van de Lavoir teaches a process control
display program for graphically displaying the flow of process
control information. Van de Lavoir fails to disclose dynamic
data links between a plurality of objects.
Our reviewing court states in In re Zletz, 893 F.2d
319, 321, 13 USPQ2d 1320, 1322 (Fed. Cir. 1989) that "claims
must be interpreted as broadly as their terms reasonably
allow." Moreover, when interpreting a claim, words of the
claim are
generally given their ordinary and accustomed meaning, unless
it appears from the specification or the file history that
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