Appeal No. 1998-3134 Page 7
Application No. 08/437,225
USPQ2d 1057, 1059 (Fed. Cir. 1993) (citing In re Zletz, 893
F.2d 319, 321, 13 USPQ2d 1320, 1322 (Fed. Cir. 1989)).
Here, claims 1-7 specify in pertinent part the following
limitations: "a hierarchical set of software code modules,
including: a first code module at one level of the hierarchy
which defines the structural relationship of elements that
constitute a displayed image of the graphical object; and a
second code module at a lower level of the hierarchy which
depends from said first code module ...." Similarly, claims
8-13 specify in pertinent part the following limitations: "a
plurality of first code modules stored in a memory, each of
which defines the structural relationship of elements that
constitute a displayed image of an associated graphical
object; a plurality of sets of second code modules stored in a
memory, which depend from said first code modules, wherein
each set of second code modules includes a code module which
depends from a respective one of said first code modules ...."
Giving claims 1-13 their broadest reasonable interpretation,
the limitations recite a multi-level hierarchy of code modules
including at least one first code module at one level of the
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