Appeal No. 2002-1398
Application No. 08/572,474
a distributed object management system without the implementation
details such as the mechanism to resolve a method invocation.
Travis discloses such a mechanism for a distributed object
management system. Accordingly, the examiner concludes that the
skilled artisan would have been led to use the method resolution
mechanism of Travis in the object adapter/instance manager of
COSS/CORBA to resolve a method invocation (answer-page 5).
Appellants’ position is that the instant claimed subject
matter would not have been obvious over the applied references
because of “the lack of any teaching or suggestion in the
references alone or in combination of returning a key upon object
creation and subsequently using that key to find or activate that
object” (brief-page 7).
We agree with appellants (brief-page 8) that the “primary
issue in all the rejections has to do with ‘key’ as it appears in
each independent claim.” As explained by appellants, at page 8
of the brief, appellants’ invention is an improved OMG compliant
object adapter which, inter alia, “returns a key when requested
to create an object and uses a key in order to find or activate
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