Appeal No. 2000-1704
Application No. 08/484,999
Brockschmidt. The IBM Design Guide and the IBM Model Guide are
applied as discussed above. Brockschmidt is cited as teaching the
representation of an object’s interface information by type
information. The examiner finds that it would have been obvious to
the artisan to combine the teachings of Brockschmidt with the other
applied references so as to provide additional OLE capability
[answer, page 6].
With respect to independent claim 17, appellants make the
same arguments discussed above with respect to claim 1. Appellants
also argue that the conventional type checking and type library
referred to by the examiner fail to teach the comparison step of
claim 17 [brief, pages 10-13].
Since the rejection of claim 17 relies on the improper
combination of the IBM Design Guide and the IBM Model Guide for
reasons discussed above, and since Brockschmidt does not overcome
the basic deficiencies in that combination, we do not sustain the
examiner’s rejection of claims 17, 18, 23 and 25. Since the
rejection of dependent claims 3 and 19-21 also relies on the
improper combination of the IBM Design Guide and the IBM Model
Guide, and since the IBM Bulletin does not overcome the basic
deficiencies in that combination, we also do not sustain the
examiner’s rejection of claims 3 and 19-21.
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