Appeal No. 1997-1654 Page 4 Application No. 08/431,307 building a set of final attributes from the default attributes and the overriding attributes during execution of the program. The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow: David S. H. Rosenthal, “Going For Baroque”, pp. 71-79, June 1988 Beatrice Lam, “The NewWave Office”, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 23-31, August 1989. Claims 26-51 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Rosenthal in view of Lam. Rather than repeat the arguments of the appellants or examiner in toto, we refer the reader to the briefs and answer for the respective details thereof. OPINION In reaching our decision in this appeal, we considered the subject matter on appeal and the rejection and evidence advanced by the examiner. Furthermore, we duly considered the arguments of the appellants and examiner. After considering the totality of the record, we are not persuaded that the examiner erred in rejecting claims 26-29, 31-39, 41-47, andPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007