Courtesy of JonnyQwan Raging Bull #334741:
629 and 744 claims side by side...
I finally had a chance to print out the newly amended and approved claims of 629. I also printed out what will be the 744 patent as amended, if Vertical agrees to cancel the rejected claims, in return for the new claims 54-57 being approved.
As I had hoped... The rejected dependant claims of 744 ( mostly listing the type of things that can make up "arbitrary objects"), and that tie to and depend on the Independent claims that describe the framework, things such as text file pointers, binary file pointers, compiled executables, shell commands, remote procedure calls, global variables, cached executables, ETC...ETC...ETC... are ALL covered by the newly approved 629 dependent claims!
Between all the claims (of both 744/629 ) that will emerge from re-examination....... We are covered 100%, and with more descriptive, powerful terms!!!
After finally getting some definite claims from the Examiner and being able to print them all out and laying them side by side... The answer is CLEAR... we lost NOTHING in the reexamination, and we are in better shape than ever to finally be in a position of negotiating power and to demand our due!
