Appeal No. 1997-3433
Application 08/395,548
network [p 754, 755]." Appellants respond that Orfali is an
announcement of future intent and provides no details how to
implement distributed OLE. Appellants note that Orfali states
(page 755): "We still don't know how these distributed OLE
objects will be stored, located, secured, replicated, and
managed."
We agree with Appellants that Orfali does not disclose
any details of distributed OLE that would cure the
deficiencies of Thessin and Microsoft OLE with respect to the
step of "transmitting the format(s)." Accordingly, we
conclude that the Examiner has failed to establish a prima
facie case of obviousness. The rejection of claim 1 and
dependent claims 2-10 is reversed.
What is also not admitted to be taught is the step of
"submitting the format(s) corresponding to Object Embedding to
the clipboard at the second computer for selection by the
second application." It is argued that the operation of
Thessin does not involve a clipboard on the second computer at
all and there is no selection of a format on the second
computer because the object is automatically embedded into
Agent B (Br11). We agree. Orfali does not cure the
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