Ex parte ANDERSON et al. - Page 18




                 Appeal No. 1999-1604                                                                                                                  
                 Application 08/741,419                                                                                                                


                  values method that sets a resource of the widget to one or                                                                           
                  more invocations of functions.  Appellants’ point to                                                                                 
                  Swanson’s teaching  of a set values function that is an39                                                                                                   
                  intrinsics function 2040 and not part of a widget 2030, and                                                                          
                  that there is no mention in Swanson of setting a resource to                                                                         
                  one or more invocations of functions.                                                                                                







                          The Examiner points first to Swanson’s teaching  of                                 40                                       
                  setting a resource and editing resource values, then to                                                                              
                  Swanson’s teaching  of the Xlib 2050, and then to Swanson’s41                                                                                                   
                  teaching  that widgets utilizing the resources are modified.42                                                                                                                    
                          We find that these citations from Swanson do not disclose                                                                    




                          39Column 24, lines 32-44.                                                                                                    
                          40Column 21, lines 41-54.                                                                                                    
                          41Column 20, line 23; figure 17.                                                                                             
                          42Column 21, line 55 through column 22, line 2.                                                                              
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