Appeal No. 1997-2898
Application 08/368,239
Claims 4, 6, 12 and 14 recite two, three-dimensional
drawings and not objects. Specifically, claims 4 and 12
recite defining a plane from a second three-dimensional
drawing. Claims 6 and 14 recite joining two, three-
dimensional drawings.
Himelstein does not disclose adjusting the distance
between a second three-dimensional drawings' variable plane
and another three-dimensional drawings' plane. Himelstein
does not provide any indication that there would be
adjustments made to one three-dimensional drawing that have a
direct relationship to adjustments made to another three-
dimensional drawing. The graphic drawings and graphic spaces
in Himelstein are independent. Fuller does not teach a
correction to this deficiency. We find that Himelstein fails
to teach the claimed limitations of "means for defining a
plane from a second three-dimensional drawing as the variable
plane" and "means for joining two, three-dimensional
drawings," and that Fuller fails to correct those
deficiencies. Thus, the references do not read on the
limitations of claims 4, 6, 12 and 14.
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