Appeal 2007-0700
Application 09/159,509
Patent 5,559,995
26. Appellants’ amendments and/or arguments (see below)
addressed at least the following limitations of Appellants’ amended claims 1
and 7:
(A) first, second and third polygon representations of respective
first, second and third virtual objects;
(B) 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
(C) 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 at least one of a
three-dimensional and rotatable wireframe object and a
three-dimensional and rotatable sweep polygon;
Limitations (A), (B), and (C) were added to claims 1 and 7 by the
Second Amendment.
27. In the Second Amendment at pages 7-10, Appellants argued the
following as to the amended claims:
Applicants respectfully traverse the rejection in light of
the clarifications to Claims 1 and 7. Claim 1 positively
recites a “grouping means...for grouping 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 at least one of a three-
dimensional and rotatable wireframe object and a three-
dimensional and rotatable sweep polygon.” However,
Wexelblat does not disclose such a grouping means.
Although the system of Wexelblat teaches shapes and
combinations of shapes, Wexelblat does not teach or
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