Appeal No. 1997-1654 Page 8
Application No. 08/431,307
Regarding claims 26-28, 31-37, and 47, the appellants
make three arguments. We address these seriatim. First, the
appellants argue, “Rosenthal teaches neither separate default
attributes and overriding attributes ....” (Appeal Br. at
14.) The examiner replies, “it is implicit that a subobject
containing default and overriding attributes as per Rosenthal
will acquire these attributes from separate sources.”
(Examiner’s Answer at 4.) We agree with the examiner.
Claims 26-28, 31-37, and 47 each specify in pertinent
part the following limitations:
specifying a set of default attributes ...;
specifying a set of one or more overriding
attributes ...;
...
storing values for each of the default
attributes in a first internal memory ...;
storing values for each of the overriding
attributes in a separate second internal memory
....
Giving the limitations their broadest reasonable
interpretation, the claims each recite separate default
attributes and overriding attributes.
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