Appeal No. 1997-1238
Application 08/169,570
they were used differently by the inventor. Carroll Touch,
Inc. v. Electro Mechanical Sys., Inc., 15 F.3d 1573, 1577, 27
USPQ2d 1836, 1840 (Fed. Cir. 1993). Although an inventor is
indeed free to define the specific terms used to describe his
or her invention, this must be done with reasonable clarity,
deliberateness, and precision. In re Paulsen, 30 F.3d 1475,
1480, 31 USPQ 1671, 1674 (Fed. Cir. 1994).
On page 1 of the specification, Appellants disclose
that dynamic data links are links that allow changes in one
application to be immediately reflected in documents produced
by other applications. Appellants further state that the term
"document," when utilized in this application, refers to any
type of data object that would be displayed in a window within
a graphic user interface, such as a word processing document,
a design drawing, or a spread sheet.
We find that Van de Lavoir fails to teach a dynamic
data link as defined by Appellants' specification or a system
that displays at least one connections icon for each object
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