Appeal No. 2000-0430
Application No. 08/742,104
Claim 5 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Miyahara in view of the SunSoft Guide and the
Digital Equipment Manual.
Reference is made to the final rejection (paper number 6),
the brief (paper number 12) and the answer (paper number 13) for
the respective positions of the appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will reverse all of the rejections of record.
Appellant and the examiner both agree (final rejection, page
3; brief, page 5) that Miyahara discloses “two or more operating
system personalities,” and a semaphore create or a semaphore
delete operation. On the other hand, appellant disagrees (brief,
page 5) with the examiner’s finding (final rejection, pages 3 and
4) that Miyahara discloses “means for testing said operating
system specific semaphore operation to determine a transformation
(determining whether to perform[,] create or destroy operation,
col. 10[,] lines 10-50,” and “means for transforming said
operating system specific semaphore operation into a generic
semaphore operation (transforming the semaphore operation into a
80960 kernel semaphore operation, col. 5 lines 33-42) using said
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