Appeal No. 95-1402
Application No. 07/936,507
a communications manager communicating with the global data base
manager for sending data to each address identified by the global data
base manager; and
a plurality of operator stations disposed in proximity to the respective
addresses in the paper mill and being in communication with the global data
base manager, each said operator station being operative to display data
communicated thereto and capable of correlating and reformatting said data
to analyze the effects of operational changes at one location in the mill on
performance at that location or at other locations in the mill and being
operative to make operational changes throughout the mill to insure
conformance to specifications.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Reiter et al. (Reiter) 4,604,686 Aug. 05, 1986
Cope 4,304,001 Dec. 01, 1981
Beasley et al. (Beasley) 4,827,423 May 02, 1989
J.. R. Lavigne, “An Introduction to Paper Industry Instrumentation,” 402-15 (1972)
Claims 1-3, and 5-7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Lavigne alone or Lavigne in view of Reiter. Claims 4, 8, 10 and 11 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Lavigne alone or in view of Reiter as
applied against claims 1-3 and 5-7 further in view of Cope. Claim 9 stands rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Lavigne in view of Reiter further in view of
Cope as applied against claims 8 and 10 further in view of Beasley.
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