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          Appeal No. 2003-0428                                                        
          Application 09/116,564                                                      

          that is contained in the document 100 is simply identified and              
          replaced, and each referenced object is relocated as required.              
          See page 6 of Appellant’s specification.                                    
               Independent claim 1 of the application is representative of            
          Appellant’s claimed invention and is reproduced as follows:                 
               1. A method for relocating objects comprising the steps of:            
               parsing a document for a first reference locator that                  
          references an object in a first file system;                                
               determining a second reference locator that references a               
          target location in a second file system;                                    
               placing a copy of the object at the target location in the             
          second file system; and                                                     
               replacing the first reference locator in the document with             
          the second reference locator.                                               
                                        Reference                                     
               The reference relied on by the Examiner is as follows:                 
               Mantha et al. (Mantha)        6,163,779      Dec. 19, 2000             
          (filing date Sept. 29, 1997)                                                
                                   Rejection at Issue                                 
               Claims 1 through 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as            
          being unpatentable over Mantha.                                             




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