Appeal No. 96-3368 Page 4
Application No. 07/735,020
The prior art references of record relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Harvey et al. (Harvey) 5,136,716 Aug. 04, 1992
(Eff. Filing Date Sep. 04, 1987)
Gregg Foster, "Collaborative Systems and Multi-user Interfaces," Thesis
submitted to Computer Science Division, Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley. (Oct.
31, 1986)
Marcel Schelvis et al. (Schelvis), "The Implementation of a Distributed
Smalltalk," ECOOP '88 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science
322, Springer-Verbg, pp. 212-232. (1988)
Claims 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Foster.
Claims 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Schelvis in view of Harvey.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the Examiner and the
appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the Examiner's
Answer (Paper No. 17, mailed June 21, 1995) and the supplemental Examiner's Answer
(Paper No. 20, mailed December 8, 1995) for the Examiner's
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