Appeal No. 1997-1184
Application No. 08/206,706
Rao et al. (Rao), “Accessing Files in an Internet: The Jade
File System,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, no.
6,
613-624 (June 19, 1993).
Claims 1, 3 through 6, 8 and 10 through 15 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Huston in
view of Rao.
Reference is made to the brief and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
The obviousness rejection of claims 1, 3 through 6, 8 and
10 through 15 is reversed.
According to the examiner (Answer, pages 3 through 5),
Huston discloses all of the claimed subject matter except for
the step of transforming the request to remove operating
system dependent syntax. Rao states that “it is possible to
access the services provided by a physical file system without
regard to the machine type or the operating system” (page 614,
left column). Based upon this disclosure in Rao, the examiner
is of the opinion that “it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art [at] the time [the] invention was
made to include the step of transforming [a] request to remove
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