Appeal No. 1997-4352
Application No. 08/422,689
“pathing” technique, which includes information pertaining to
direction instructions, spins, size changes, closed polygons,
and variable speeds, is suggestive of claim 17's “encoding the
dynamics of geometric object relationships as textual
algorithms, and using these textual algorithms to modify
objects and their geometric relationships in a geometry
database” [quoted from the examiner’s description at page 5 of
the answer].
It does appear that the “Autodesk Animator” described by
Simone may, possibly, have many, if not all, of the
capabilities recited in the instant claims and we are troubled
by the failure of the examiner to employ a disclosure of the
“Autodesk Animator,” itself, as by way, for example, of an
operating manual describing the actual system, rather than a
publication merely referring to the “Autodesk Animator”
system. Nevertheless, the examiner offers only Kantor and
Simone as evidence of obviousness of the instant claimed
subject matter. We find Simone’s overly general description
of some of the features of “Autodesk Animator” to fall short
of providing for the specifically claimed features, as pointed
out by appellants at pages 11-16 of the brief. While Simone
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