Appeal No. 1999-1452
Application 08/436,830
does not teach that his integrated development environment alters or edits but merely
permits the inspection or viewing or browsing of object-oriented programming
environments as set forth initially in the title of the invention and in the abstract.
Significantly, however, columns 1-3 of Frid-Nielsen detail very persuasively in an
historical sense the development and desirability of using GUIs in a Windows
environment as a tool in the development of object-oriented programming
methodologies. Note particularly the paragraph bridging columns 2 and 3. The
examiner’s reliance upon Figure 7G of this reference is significant and consistent with
his reliance thereon. We would add to this Figures 7H, 7I, the showing in Figures 7N
of parent and child relationships, the showing in Figure 8A of parent and child
relationships, the discussion and showing of handles in Figure 8B, the showing of
parent and child relationships in Figure 8C and the Figure 8D showing of the mouse-
keyboard user actuatable device for manipulating the inspection browsing software of
Frid-Nielsen.
We do not agree with appellant’s characterization of Myers at page 11 of the
brief that it does not teach the use of a graphical user interface for modifying program
structures with respect to hierarchical or heteroarchical relationship of objects. What
appellant makes reference to at page 102 is the discussion of what Myers considers to
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