Appeal No. 2002-0367
Application No. 09/108,147
Spofford suggests that added components can be managed once they
have been added to a computer network” (answer-page 6).
We disagree.
First, we find it suspect that two or three lines in Garvey,
column 4, lines 20-22, “the remote access server manager window
300 provides a list 310 of the remote access servers coupled to
the network” is said to teach the claimed, “means for displaying
a plurality of system elements,” “means responsive to the
occurrence of an invocative attribute for enabling said selective
addition of an associated computing component to said operation,”
and “means for displaying a listing of said computing components
enabled for said selective addition for each of said displayed
elements.” Frankly, we do not understand how those few lines in
Garvey teach all three of the cited claimed “means.”
It appears that the examiner is giving an unreasonably broad
interpretation to the terms of the instant claims. For example,
claim 1 requires, inter alia, a “means responsive to the
occurrence of an invocative attribute for each of said elements”
[emphasis added]. While the instant specification does not
explicitly define this emphasized term, it is clear from the
specification, as argued by appellant at page 2 of the reply
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