Appeal No. 2001-2581
Application No. 08/847,124
McGurrin discloses what is alleged by the examiner, the
combination with Aho is faulty.
As recognized by the examiner, McGurrin fails to teach the
use of an “offset data member,” as set forth in each and every
claim on appeal. While independent claim 1 does not use those
words, it, too, describes this offset by reciting the storing of
an indication “of a difference between the enclosing object
address and the embedded object address.”
The examiner’s reliance on Aho to supply this deficiency of
McGurrin is misplaced because Aho is directed to storage
allocation in the Fortran computer language. As is well known,
Fortran is not an object-oriented programming language.
Accordingly, Aho would suggest nothing relative to embedded or
enclosing objects, as claimed. Therefore, there would have been
no reason for the artisan to modify the object-oriented language
technique of McGurrin by any teaching of Aho relative to Fortran.
While Aho does teach offsets between nodes in a tree, this is not
suggestive of the offsets claimed by appellants regarding
retrieving a difference from a data member of an embedded object
in an object-oriented programming language.
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