Appeal No. 2000-0249 Page 6
Application No. 08/632,240
“In rejecting claims under 35 U.S.C. Section 103, the examiner
bears the initial burden of presenting a prima facie case of
obviousness.” In re Rijckaert, 9 F.3d 1531, 1532, 28 USPQ2d
1955, 1956 (Fed. Cir. 1993)(citing In re Oetiker, 977 F.2d
1443, 1445, 24 USPQ2d 1443, 1444 (Fed. Cir. 1992)). "’A prima
facie case of obviousness is established when the teachings
from the prior art itself would appear to have suggested the
claimed subject matter to a person of ordinary skill in the
art.’" In re Bell, 991 F.2d 781, 782, 26 USPQ2d 1529, 1531
(Fed. Cir. 1993) (quoting In re Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1051,
189 USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976)).
Here, Perez stores parts of an N-dimensional database at
several locations in a computer network. Specifically, “[a]
user, e.g., user 1, of one of the personal computers connected
to the network, e.g., PC 1, seeking to use in a spreadsheet
some of the data stored in the multidimensional array
illustrated in FIG. 2, gains access to the table server
storing this array, e.g., server 11, ....” Col. 6, ll. 23-27.
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