Ex parte ARNOLD et al. - Page 10




          Appeal No. 1997-3499                                                        
          Application 08/366,281                                                      

               For the reasons stated above, we conclude that the                     
          Examiner has failed to establish a prima facie case of                      
          obviousness with respect to claim 1.  Claims 9, 17, and 21                  
          contain similar limitations to the missing critical limitation              
          about the scrubber means reading out data for use by the virus              
          signature detection process and, accordingly, stand with                    
          claim 1.  The rejection of claims 1, 8, 9, 16, 17, and 21 is                
          reversed.                                                                   
                                      REVERSED                                        







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