Appeal 2007-0700
Application 09/159,509
Patent 5,559,995
suggest grouping three-dimensional and rotatable
wireframe objects or sweep polygons.
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Applicants respectfully submit that Claim 7 is patentable
for at least the reasons set forth for the patentability of
Claim 1.
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Since Fisher only adds to Wexelblat the teachings of
virtual objects, the Official Action has not shown that
“grouping means” as positively recited in Claim 1 is
taught or suggested by any of the references, or that any
of the references suggest modifying the cited references
to achieve the positively recited limitation.
The arguments directly above addressed Finding of Fact 26 limitation (C)
found in Appellants’ amended claims 1 and 7.
28. On April 9, 1996, a Notice of Allowability was mailed which
stated that pending claims 1-7 and 11-12 were allowed.
29. Application claims 1-7 became patent claim 1-7 respectively,
and consistent with Office practice, application claims 11-12 were
renumbered as patent claims 8-9 in the course of preparing the original
application for issue.
30. U.S. Patent 5,559,995 issued September 24, 1996, based on the
original application and contained claims 1-9.
C. Prosecution of reissue application
31. Appellants filed reissue application 09/159,509 on September
23, 1998, seeking to reissue U.S. Patent 5,559,995.
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