Appeal 2007-0700
Application 09/159,509
Patent 5,559,995
23. The Second Amendment similarly and extensively amended
independent claims 1 and 7. Dependent claims 2 and 3 were also amended,
claims 8 and 9 were canceled, and new dependent claims 11 and 12 were
added. Amended claim 1 is reproduced below (matter underlined added by
the Second Amendment and matter in [brackets] deleted by the Second
Amendment):
1. An apparatus for creating a virtual world data base,
comprising:
receiving means for receiving [a pictorial representation] first,
second and third polygon representations of respective first, second
and third virtual objects in a [the] virtual world;
selecting means, coupled to said receiving means, for selecting
a first edge of said first virtual object and for selecting a second edge
of said second virtual object; and
grouping means, coupled to the receiving means and the
selecting means, for grouping [descriptions of the pictorial
representation of] said first and second virtual objects in the virtual
world into a grouped object comprising said first and second virtual
objects joined at an intersection of the first and second edges, the
grouped object represented by [selected groups of] at least one of a
three-dimensional and rotatable wireframe [objects] object and a
three-dimensional and rotatable sweep polygon [objects].
24. After entry of the Second Amendment, the application claims
were 1-7 and 11-12.
25. In the Second Amendment, Appellants presented extensive
arguments with respect to the patentability of amended claims 1 and 7.
(Second Amendment 6-17).
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