Appeal No. 1998-3329 Page 5
Application No. 08/261,518
reverse. We begin by summarizing the examiner's rejection and
the appellant‘s arguments.
Admitting that “Nelson et al. does not explicitly
disclose the implementation of a local machine name which is a
symbolic link for specifying a computer on which execution is
to be performed,” (Examiner’s Answer at 5), the examiner
asserts, "Radia discloses the implementation of a local
machine name which
is a symbolic link for specifying a computer on which
execution
is to be performed [p. 74, col. 2]." (Id.) The appellant
argues, "[e]ven if Nelson were provided with the symbolic
linking arrangement of Radia, the combination would still not
render claims 44 and 52 obvious because both of these
references lack the claimed arrangement of providing a
symbolic link to a local machine name, and linking the local
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