Ex parte ANDERSON et al. - Page 10




                 Appeal No. 1999-1604                                                                                                                   
                 Application 08/741,419                                                                                                                 


                   compiled .  Thus, the widget does not set a resource of the19                                                                                                                     
                   widget to an invocation of a function as claimed.                                                                                    
                          The Examiner asserts  that Tonouchi teaches all the20                                                                                        
                   elements of claim 1, except that it does not specifically                                                                            
                   teach setting a resource of the widget at runtime (Examiner’s                                                                        
                                                                                     21              22                                                 
                   emphasis).  The Examiner then applies  Swanson  as “teaching                                                                         
                   a ‘graphical resource editor for selectively modifying                                                                               
                   graphical resources in software applications’ wherein                                                                                
                   ‘customization of software application may be performed                                                                              
                   statically’ or ‘dynamically by applying resource edits on-                                                                           
                   the-fly to an application running concurrently with the                                                                              
                   graphical resource editor’.”                                                                                                         


                          The Examiner then finds that it would have been obvious                                                                       
                   to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the                                                                               
                   invention                                                                                                                            


                          19Column 14, line 34 through column 15, line 13.                                                                              
                          20Answer, page 5.                                                                                                             
                          21Answer, page 5.                                                                                                             
                          22Abstract.                                                                                                                   
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