Appeal No. 2001-0474
Application 09/001,117
OPINION
The issues within 35 U.S.C. § 103 focus in this appeal
upon the claimed view generator which generates a view of the
case base by representing each case therewithin as one or more
view tokens, "all view tokens in said view having a uniform
length." The essential subject matter of representative
independent claim 1 on appeal is also set forth in method claim
12 and program product claim 23, both of which are also
independent claims.
The statement of the rejection at pages 4 and 5 of the
answer does not detail any teaching or showing in Gupta and Brown
corresponding to the noted feature of view tokens having a
uniform length. When challenged by appellants' arguments at page
7 of the brief, the examiner responds at pages 10 and 11 of the
answer asserting that this uniform length feature is taught in
Gupta at column 6 in accordance with the showing of Table 1 and
the attributes A-F therein.
Correspondingly, page 2 of the reply brief takes issue with
respect to this assertion of the examiner as to column 6 of Gupta
and the showing in Table 1. We agree with appellants'
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