Appeal No. 1996-0331
Application 08/239,942
nature. We are in agreement with appellants (Brief, page 4; Reply Brief, page 1) that Hawkins teaches
at page 1 paragraph 1 that Clipper appears to be a superset of dBASE and not a superset of SQL.
Although "Clipper may well be the ultimate superset" (Hawkins, page 1, paragraph 1), the examiner has
not adequately shown that Hawkins explicitly or inherently teaches that Clipper is a superset of SQL
which reads on appellants’ "change definition language."
In view of the foregoing, the decision of the examiner rejecting claims 1 and 31 under 35
U.S.C. § 102(b) is reversed.
REVERSED
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