Appeal No. 2000-0358
Application No. 08/678,409
and claim 15 includes the limitation, "said computer system
comprising . . . a mechanism configured to cause a new access
right to be acquired by said virtual input device by causing the
first object to interact with a second object representing access
rights of said virtual input devices." Reading these claims as
broadly as reasonably allowed, claim 8 requires the data
representing sequences of instructions of a machine readable
medium executed on a computer system to cause the system to
perform the step of acquiring said new access right by said
virtual input device by causing the first object to interact with
a second object representing access rights of said virtual input
device, and claim 15 requires a mechanism of a computer system to
be capable of or configured to cause a new access right to be
acquired by said virtual input device by causing the first object
to interact with a second object representing access rights of
said virtual input device.
Appellant argues that Bly et al. (Bly) does not disclose the
step of the virtual input device acquiring a new access right by
causing a first object to interact with a second object
representing access rights of the virtual input device. Appeal
Brief, page 5, lines 23-25. More specifically, Appellant states
that if the record is the recited second object, the record does
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