Appeal 2007-0700
Application 09/159,509
Patent 5,559,995
overlooked during prosecution of the original patent application; and (2)
which patentably distinguish over the prior art.
Originally prosecuted claims 2 and 3 (now patent claims 2 and 3)
recite in part (emphasis added):
attribute assigning means, coupled to the grouping means, for
assigning attribute to the first and second edges of the first and
second virtual objects, the attribute means including hierarchy
means for assigning a grouping hierarchy for the first and
second virtual objects wherein the second virtual object is
assigned as a child object of the first virtual object and wherein
an orientation and a position of the child object is calculated
relative to the first virtual object.
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attribute assigning means further comprises:
origin assigning means for assigning an origin on the
first virtual object around which the third virtual object can
rotate; and
constraint assigning means for assigning a three-
dimensional constraint of motion to the third virtual object to
constrain how the third virtual object can rotate with respect to
the first virtual object.
See also originally prosecuted and patented claims 1 and 4-9.
Appellants fail to point out any materially narrowed overlooked
aspect that is claimed in reissue claims 10-43, 46-55, 58-66, 97-104, and
106-108. To the contrary Appellants point to limitations already found in
the patent claims (e.g. Br. 10:5-9) and argue that such limitation (e.g. the
“three-dimensional” group) is a materially limitation as to the reissue claims.
We reiterate that we do not agree.
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