Appeal No. 96-4029
Application 08/386,604
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1 through 9, all of the claims pending in the
present application.
This invention relates to the field of graphic
display with data processing systems. More particularly, this
invention relates to graphic clipping. Graphic clipping is
the process in which each window contains graphic objects and
as the user varies the size of the window, the system deter-
mines what portion of the objects are inside the window and
displays only that portion. On page 2 of the specification,
Appellant discloses that there is a need for a way of dealing
with overlapping windows which does not rely on first drawing
and then overlaying the lower priority windows. Appellant
discloses a method of displaying overlapping windows contain-
ing graphic objects defined by graphic orders comprising the
steps of processing said graphic orders to generate modified
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