Appeal No. 2002-0367
Application No. 09/108,147
occurrence of an invocative attribute for enabling said selective
addition of an associated computing component to said operation”
and the claimed “means for displaying a listing of said computing
components enabled for said selective addition for each of said
displayed elements,” the examiner again refers to column 4, lines
21-22, of Garvey. Referring, broadly, to Figures 5-13 of Garvey,
and specifically to column 4, line 24, (“then selects the add
button 320”) of Garvey, the examiner says that this section of
the patent teaches the claimed “means for selecting at least one
of said listed enabled computing components to thereby add said
associated computing component.”
In fact, the examiner contends that Garvey teaches the
claimed subject matter but for explicitly “enabling and adding
new components or elements” (answer-page 5). The examiner relies
on Spofford to supply the alleged omission by Garvey.
Specifically, the examiner cites column 6, lines 40 et seq., of
Spofford, “the network unit 112 and/or the management module 116
is able to detect connection of a new network device or node
through any one of the ports 104” and concludes that it would
have been obvious “to incorporate the enabling function as taught
in Spofford into the computer network management system in Garvey
because Garvey operates with managing computer networks and
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