Appeal No. 2006-1754
Application No. 10/046,940
BACKGROUND
The rejection of claims 1-25 has been appealed. Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method of generating display information from management definition
data, said method comprising:
receiving an element request from a user;
locating a display name corresponding to the element request in a
management definition object;
retrieving one or more qualifier values and one or more data definitions
corresponding to the display name, wherein the retrieving includes reading the
management definition object;
creating one or more data elements using the data definitions; and
writing the qualifier values and data elements to a display panel.
In the Final Rejection (mailed Jan. 28, 2005), the examiner rejected claims 1-23
and 25 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)(1), and claim 24 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a), over
published patent application US 2003/0095145 A1 (“Patrizio”), filed October 30, 2001.
The examiner indicated in the Final Rejection that appellants’ declaration filed
under 37 CFR § 1.131 is ineffective to antedate Patrizio because: (1) the declaration is
signed by less than all the named inventors; (2) the submitted evidence is insufficient to
establish conception of the invention prior to the effective date of the reference; (3) the
submitted evidence fails to show the claimed invention was reduced to practice prior to
the effective date of the reference; and (4) the submitted evidence is insufficient to show
conception of the invention prior to the effective date of the reference coupled with due
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