Appeal No. 1997-1654 Page 12
Application No. 08/431,307
reference overrides “the defaults database to set the Label’s
value to the string to display.” P. 78. It “creates an X11
window for each Widget, setting its attributes from the data
in the Widget.” P. 78. More specifically, “[t]he default
attributes for the Label Widget specify that the text is
centered, and the default mechanism supplies a suitable font.”
PP. 78-79. “In the same way, the default mechanism supplies
background and foreground colors for the Widget.” P. 79. In
summary, Rosenthal creates a window by superimposing the
overriding “Hello, World” string on default fonts and colors.
Workers in the art would have known that the window is
represented by a set of final attributes. These teachings
would have suggested “building a set of final attributes from
the default attributes and the overriding attributes ....”
Third, the appellants argue, “Lam fails to teach a method
for maintaining a single copy of data, such as a single copy
of the overriding attribute values.” (Appeal Br. at 14.)
More specifically, they assert that Lam fails to teach
maintaining only a single copy of the overriding attribute
values. The examiner replies, “The ‘data’ of the claimed
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