Appeal No. 96-3323
Application 08/022,922
at page 11.)
The Examiner states in the final rejection at paragraph 19 that Sasagase does not
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teach the assembly structure database. The Examiner states in paragraph 20 of the final
rejection that “the assembly structure database would have been necessary to interface all
the parts into an integral design.” (Emphasis added.) In the answer, the Examiner states
that the “assembly structure database” is
Not specifically disclosed in any of the references.
It would have been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art of computers to
include a part shape database for the object database, a part control
database for the relational index, and an assembly structure database in the
combined inventions of Sasagase et al. and Hardwick et al.'s, because
Hardwick et al.'s system was useful for computer aided design (Title) and
part shape would have been an object attribute in the object database
necessary to design the component parts and a part control database would
have been a part of the relational index of Hardwick et al. necessary for
concurrency and version control (page 5, Column 1, line 1-11), and the
assembly structure database would have been necessary to interface all the
parts into an integral working whole. It would have been obvious for one of
ordinary skill in the art of computers to combine the apparatus of Gore et al.
with the database architecture of Hardwick et al. and Sasagase et al. to
realize teamwork design of configurations of objects with different shapes
because Gore et al. taught using a design network of client work stations
served by common file servers to share files and devices in a cooperative
work environment, Sasagase et al. taught using an object database and a
control database which could best have been realized by a relational
database for ease of querying and Hardwick et al. taught that their database
We note that Sasagase teaches a “part composition database” (pages 6 and 10 with Figures 2A-6
2C) which the Examiner has not mentioned in the rejection. It appears that this database may teach an
assembly structure of multiple parts of a larger design of parts. This has not been set forth in the rejection
nor arguments thereto presented by the Examiner. We make no findings thereto.
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