Appeal No. 1997-1184
Application No. 08/206,706
operating system dependent syntax . . . in the method for
managing file system cache in a client computer system
disclosed by Huston” (Answer, pages 5 and 6).
Appellants indicate that Huston “is generally teaching
that implementations designed for use in a distributed file
system, do not work well, if at all, when they are applied to
disconnected operation,” and that the focus of the Huston
paper is to “[m]ake such implementations work in the
disconnected environment” (Brief, pages 5 and 6). Appellants
go on to explain that Rao also discloses a distributed file
system called Jade that is used in connection with the
Internet (Brief, page 6). Although Rao is concerned with a
distributed file system for networked computers, appellants
explain that the computers are not disconnected computers
(Brief, page 6). Appellants further note that “both
references are dependent upon dealing with the distributed
file system protocol, which the present invention is not”
(Brief, pages 6 and 7). Appellants then argue (Brief, page
7):
Given these passages and the court’s guidance, one
of ordinary skill in the art would not find it
obvious to combine two references that teach away
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