Appeal 2006-3396
Application 10/165,081
displaying a screen including one or more of the created variables and
receiving a user selection corresponding to generating the getter and setter
source code for the variable name. The issue, therefore, is whether Chiang
discloses a user selection corresponding to generating getter and setter
source code.
We agree with Appellants. Although Chiang's Figures 9 and 10 show
display screens corresponding to variable names, there is no indication in
Chiang that the user makes a selection corresponding to generating getter
and setter source code. Entering a value for the variable name does not
correspond to generating getter and setter source code. Therefore, we cannot
sustain the anticipation of claims 3, 10, and 15.
For claims 4, 11, and 17, Appellants contend (Br. 8) that Chiang fails
to disclose that the generation of getter and setter source code includes the
steps of selecting a source code template and combining the template with a
variable name. The Examiner (Answer 6) relies on paragraph [0098] of
Chiang as disclosing the claimed steps. The issue is whether Chiang
discloses generating getter and setter source code by selecting a source code
template and combining the template with a variable name.
We find nothing in paragraph [0098] or elsewhere in Chiang that
would suggest selecting a getter or setter source code template and
combining it with a variable name. The code of paragraph [0097] is a source
code template that includes a line of getter source code, but nowhere do we
find generating the line of getter source code by selecting a template and
combining it with a variable name. Therefore, we will not sustain the
anticipation rejection of claims 4, 11, and 17.
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