Appeal No. 2001-1507
Application No. 08/972,129
Hsieh, Cheng-Hsueh A., “Optimizing NET Compilers for Improved Java Performance,”
COMPUTER, pp. 67-75 (June 1997).
Claims 1-28 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Hsieh in view of Zhang.
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. 12, mailed Sep. 11, 2000) for the examiner's reasoning in support of
the rejections, and to appellants’ brief (Paper No. 9, filed Jan. 27, 2000), appellants’
supplemental brief (Paper No. 11, filed Jun. 26, 2000) and reply brief (Paper No. 13,
filed Nov. 17, 2000) for appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
appellants’ specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of
our review, we make the determinations which follow.
Appellants argue at great length and in great depth throughout the briefs that
appellants find no support for the examiner’s position that Zhang teaches or suggests
computing a signed object for security purposes and shows updating of the signed
object by using the SignatureBlock and the HashBlock. (For example, see
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