Appeal No. 2001-1204
Application No. 08/971,021
rules that include a constraint to be satisfied by a feature of
the first object and a feature of the second object in a manner
that specifies the activity and the document[s] are duals of each
other.”
Since Srinivasan neither teaches nor would have suggested to
the skilled artisan an analogy between the program manager
teachings of Srinivasan and the claimed first user input and
first and second objects, and the examiner has acknowledged the
lack of teachings in Srinivasan pertaining to other claim
limitations, we agree with the noted arguments made by the
appellants. Thus, the obviousness rejection of the claims on
appeal is reversed because of the lack of evidence in the record
to support any of the positions made by the examiner.
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