Appeal No. 1999-2720
Application No. 08/580,965
reasoning to the progression of Tichy's discussion of the RCS
version control system. Appellant asserts that the Examiner's
analysis fails to take into account the natural progression of
the academic paper where initial sections provide a foundation
for the reader's understanding of RCS, and do not include the
concept of deltas, and represent each revision in figure 5 as
a
rectangle. Later sections of the paper introduce the concept
of deltas and represent each delta in figure 5 with a
triangle.
In reply to the Examiner's statement that "Considering
the space-time tradeoff, one of ordinary skill in the art
would have been motivated to employ more up to all revisions
in complete/intact form to address the need for fast
retrieval/checkout" (emphasis added), Appellant asserts9 that
since Tichy indicates that there is a space-time tradeoff,
there would be no motivation to entirely discount the
importance of conserving space by employing revisions in
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