Appeal No. 2001-1095
Application No. 08/622,806
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Cowsar et al. (Cowsar) 5,615,400 Mar. 25, 1997
(Filed Jun. 30, 1993)
Ellis et al. (Ellis), The Annotated C++ Reference Manual 196-306, AT&T Bell Telephone
Laboratories, Inc. (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1990)
Claims 1-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Cowsar in view of Ellis.1
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 18, mailed Nov. 8, 1999) for the examiner's reasoning in support of
the rejections, and to appellants’ brief (Paper No. 17, filed Aug. 23, 1999) and to
appellants’ reply brief (Paper No. 19, filed Jan. 12, 2000) for appellants’ arguments
thereagainst.
1 We note that the examiner has not made any comment to the language used in dependent
claims 20-26 with respect to a “computable readable code” and what that entails and whether this was
intended to be a computer readable code.
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