Appeal 2007-0506
Application 09/998,511
THE REFERENCES
Coplien US 5,093,914 Mar. 3, 1992
West US 5,740,440 Apr. 14, 1998
Nishimura US 5,845,125 Dec. 1, 1998
Admitted Prior Art (APA) at Specification 2 stating that it was known
for breakpoints to be specified as "conditional."
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 3, 4, 7-10, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22-24, and 26-30 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Nishimura.
Claims 2, 5, 14, 19, and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
unpatentable over Nishimura and Coplien.
Claim 11 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable
over Nishimura and West.
Claims 12 and 25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
unpatentable over Nishimura and the APA.
DISCUSSION
Content of Nishimura
Nishimura discloses a debugger for an object-oriented computer
program. A conventional debugging system cannot debug an object-
oriented program efficiently because it processes the program based on the
location within the program, not based on objects (col. 2, ll. 54-57) and has
the problems described at column 2, line 60 to column 4, line 40.
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