Appeal No. 2002-0700
Application No. 09/145,102
classes are initialized eventually before beginning the main
method (Specification, page 4, lines 3-12).
The Rejection of Claims 1-15 Under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (a)
The examiner has found that Shaughnessy teaches a method for
initializing variables in a first class object in an object-
oriented program. The first class object sends a message to the
second class object that it initialize its core variables; then
the first class object initializes its core variables (Examiner’s
Answer, page 4, lines 6-15).
The examiner has additionally found that Burke teaches
priority of a user-defined class object. Burke teaches matching
algorithms may be implemented by the programmer to produce a
priority rule. (Examiner’s Answer, page 4, line 16 – page 5, line
5). The examiner then concludes that it would have been obvious
to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was
made to combine the references to allow the user-defined class
object and rule priority generated by Burke would allow
Shaughnessy’s system to automatically handle priority rules
(Examiner’s Answer, page 5, lines 5-8).
The appellant urges that the examiner has erred in his
petitionable subject matter. See 37 C.F.R. 1.181 and 1.182 generally.
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