Appeal No. 2004-1702
Application 09/182,745
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 2, 6, 7, 16, and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Syeda and Gill.
Claims 3-5, 8-15, and 18-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Syeda and Gill, further in
view of Goetz.
We refer to the rejection (Paper No. 36) (pages referred to
as "R__") and the examiner's answer (Paper No. 39) (pages
referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the examiner's
rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 38) (pages referred to as
"Br__") for a statement of appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
The claims are directed to "an object-oriented programming
interface for use by a programmer in a computer readable medium
[including] a software Interactive Media Viewer (IMV) module"
(claim 1); a "programming application for creating an Interactive
Multimedia Application (IMA), in a computer readable medium ...
[including an] Interactive Multimedia Viewer (IMV) software
module" (claims 6 and 11); and "a method for assembling an
Interactive Multimedia Application (IMA)... [including an]
Interactive Multimedia Viewer (IMV) software module" (claim 16).
Independent claims 1, 6, and 11 recite the following relevant
limitations of the IMV (or minor variations thereof): (1) "a code
set adapted to access and present media code from multimedia
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