Appeal No. 1999-1452
Application 08/436,830
programs according to the initial paragraphs of column 1 of this patent. Various
debugging software systems are taught at columns 1 and 2, even to including specific
discussions of program editors which allow the user to enter or change code at least in
conventional programming architectures. Although the abstract and columns 2 and 3 of
Pazel discuss the use of objects, they are in the context of objects associated with GUIs
and not necessarily objects in the context of object-oriented programming. In this
respect, appellant’s observation that Pazel is not directed to object-oriented
programming is correct. Its teaching value, however, goes well beyond the specific use
of Windows and GUI environments to aid the software programmer in editing and
otherwise debugging programs. Obviously, in the context of the object-oriented
programming disclosures of the admitted prior art and Berry relied upon by the
examiner, the suggestibility of utilizing the GUIs and Windows-based approach of Pazel
in the admitted prior art and Berry was compelling.
In a more powerful analytical sense, appellant’s admitted prior art of OOP in
combination with Berry is most compelling since they both are concerned with OOP.
Pazel then may be viewed as cumulative to the teachings of GUIs utilized in a program
development environment to Berry, but it has remarkably more extensive teachings of
GUIs in a Windows environment for editing purposes. We recognize, in contrast to
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