Appeal No. 2002-1313 Page 5
Application No. 09/282,590
Cir. 1993) (citing In re Zletz, 893 F.2d 319, 321, 13 USPQ2d 1320, 1322 (Fed. Cir.
1989)).
Here, independent claim 1 specifies in pertinent part the following limitations:
"displaying a three dimensional representation of a modifier to be applied to said object
for altering a shape of said object in association with the representation of the object. . .
applying said modifier to said object; and generating and displaying a second three
dimensional representation of said object from said object and said modifier. . . .”
Similarly, independent claim 2 specifies in pertinent part the following limitations:
"defining, by information stored in a storage device, one or more modifiers that may be
applied to the object to thereby change a shape of the object, . . . displaying the
modifiers by displaying a wireframe in association with the representation of the object,
the wireframe having a shape defined by one or more modifier parameters that are
associated with the modifier, and the wireframe's shape indicating an approximate
resulting shape of the object when the modifier is applied to the object; applying the
modifiers to the object; and generating and displaying a second visual representation of
the object based on the object and the one of the modifiers. . . .”
Also similarly, independent claim 10 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations: “defining, by information stored in a storage device, one or more modifiers
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