Appeal No. 96-1463 Application 08/048,181 operates in accordance with the requirements of claims 1 and 9. This deficiency in the teachings of Iwasaki is in addition to the deficiencies noted supra by the examiner. We also note that Iwasaki lacks a polygon deformation means as required by both claim 1 and claim 9. For teachings lacking in Iwasaki, the examiner turned to Hernandez for teachings of polygon shifting, polygon deformation, and polygon rotation (Answer, pages 3 and 4). Hernandez discloses a method of editing graphic objects in an interactive draw graphic system. As illustrated in Figure 2 of this reference, polygonally shaped graphic objects 21 through 23 are displayed on screen 20 of display 10. In an edit operation, the rectangular polygon 23 is moved from the bottom of the screen to the top of the screen (Figures 3 through 6). When the object editing mode is entered, the printing cursor 25 (Figure 3) appears on the screen, and an edit menu 27 (Figure 4) is brought up adjacent the cursor. The edit action MOVE is selected, and the cursor is thereafter positioned adjacent the rectangular polygon 23 (Figure 5). The rectangular polygon is then carried from the lower portion 6Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007