Appeal No. 1999-2720
Application No. 08/580,965
Appellant that distinctions between references that would
preclude a suggestion or motivation for combining references
does not need to be recited in the claims to be considered as
evidence of unobviousness.
We also agree with Appellant that the Examiner's finding
that a version/revision of Tichy can be represented in a delta
or a complete form, applies hindsight reasoning to the
progression of Tichy's discussion of the RCS version control
system. Tichy's academic paper first provides a foundation
for the reader's understanding of RCS, and does not include
the concept of deltas, and therefore represents each revision
in figure 5 as a rectangle. Later sections of the paper then
introduce the concept of deltas and represent each delta in
figure 5 with a triangle.
We disagree with the Examiner's contention that due to
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
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