Appeal No. 2002-0364
Application No. 08/951,812
instant claims, taking, for example, independent claim 36, the
examiner cites pages 81-100 as disclosing the claimed creation of
a reference-based association relating first and second classes,
cites pages 383-388 for a teaching of cardinality, cites pages
18, 20, 83 and 391-392 for a showing of instantiating one or more
objects from the first class and one or more objects from the
second class, and then cites these same pages, as well as pages
133-139, for the elements of paragraph c of claim 36.
We have carefully reviewed the portions of Martin cited by
the examiner and we are unconvinced that these disclosures
anticipate the instant claimed invention. While Martin is an
excellent, over-all text for explaining many of the intricacies
of object-oriented technologies, and providing definitions of
terms and general examples of some of those terms, we have not
been able to discern anything therein, at the portions cited by
the examiner, which meets the instant claim language.
While pages 81-100 of Martin discuss relationships among
object types, we find nothing therein, and the examiner has
pointed to nothing, which would indicate the creation of a
reference-based association relating first and second classes, as
claimed, wherein the reference attribute specified in the first
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