Appeal No. 1998-2699
Application 08/387,504
'Applications must allocate colors by trial and error'. ... an
assumption that Nye automatically could send a No Operation
request in place of an allocation request to those
participants within a conference which do not support non-
shareable color cell requests is an assumption which is not
fairly suggested by this reference".
The Examiner further contends, final rejection at page 3,
that "[a]s to the last limitation [of claim 1], this an
obvious method of achieving and [sic] obviously desirable
result. The desirable result is color consistency across all
participating
platforms. This method to achieve color consistency simply
attempts to direct the more flexible participants to
accommodate the least flexible. The more flexible
participants are naturally MORE LIKELY to accommodate the
least flexible, rather than vice versa". Appellants argue,
brief at pages 6 and 7, that "Nye is entirely silent on the
issue of displaying both read/write colorcells and read-only
colorcells for the same element within a single requesting
application as set forth within the present claim, and the
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