Appeal No.95-5026
Application 07/923,668
1237, 1239 (Fed. Cir. 1995), cert. denied, 117 S.Ct. 80 (1996)
citing W. L. Gore & Assocs., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d
1540, 1548, 220 USPQ 303, 309 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469
U.S. 851 (1984).
The Examiner argues that Foley teaches matrix transformation
of vertex data in a computer. The Examiner admits that Foley
fails to teach identifying a shared vertex. The Examiner then
points to Einkauf stating that Einkauf implicitly teaches
identifying a shared vertex, retrieving world space data and
supplying the world space data to a display when a shared vertex
is identified.
Appellants argue on pages 12 through 18 of the brief that
Foley and Einkauf, either individually or together, fail to teach
the Appellants' invention which relates to the reduction of
redundant matrix transformations of shared polygonal vertex data
as recited in Appellants’ independent claims 1 and 13.
Appellants further argue that neither Foley nor Einkauf teaches
or suggests means for identifying a shared vertex or means for
retrieving stored world space data corresponding to said shared
vertex and supplying the retrieved world space data corresponding
to said shared vertex to a display means when said shared vertex
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