Appeal No. 1997-3224
Application No. 08/231,531
performed until a play command is selected. Appellants
further emphasize this point on page 4 of the reply brief
stating that the references do not teach automatically
generating a graphical representation of a functional
relationship between the second operation represented by the
second graphical object and the first operation represented by
the first graphical object.
On page 20 of the Examiner's answer, the Examiner
responds to this argument stating that the operation could be
the displaying operation itself. Appellants respond on page 4
of the reply brief that the Examiner's interpretation is
misplaced because the preamble of claim 1 refers to graphical
representation operations performed in a computer and the body
includes graphical representations of the first operation and
graphical representations of the second operation.
Upon our review of Kodosky, Macromedia Director Overview
Manual and Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, we fail to
find that these references teach these claimed limitations.
Appellants' claim 1 clearly requires automatically generating
a graphical representation of a functional relationship
between
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