Appeal No. 1998-3134 Page 9
Application No. 08/437,225
contesting the assertion, the examiner states, “no further
responses ... is deemed necessary.” (Supp. Examiner’s Answer
at 2.) Furthermore, the examiner fails to explain the
relevance of Southerton’s hierarchy of windows to the claimed
hierarchy of code modules.
Because Southerton merely teaches a hierarchy of windows,
we are not persuaded that the reference discloses or would
have suggested the limitations of "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" or "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
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