Appeal No. 2001-1197
Application No. 09/019,137
point to, and storing the offset as a value of the pointer in the
location of the pointer. See page 2 of Appellant's
specification.
Independent claim 1 present in the application is reproduced
as follows:
1. A method of defining a pointer to a location, comprising the
steps of:
determining an offset of a location of the pointer from a
location that the pointer is to point to; and
storing the offset as a value of the pointer in the location
of the pointer.
References
The reference relied on by the Examiner is as follows:
Gray et al. (Gray) 5,432,936 Jul. 11, 1995
Rejections at Issue
Claims 1 through 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as
being anticipated by Gray.
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellant or Examiner,
we make reference to the briefs1 and the answer for the
respective details thereof.
1 Appellant filed an appeal brief on November 24, 2000.
Appellant filed a reply brief on March 12, 2001. The Examiner
mailed an Office communication on January 10, 2002, stating that
the reply brief has been considered and entered.
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