Ex parte BANDA et al. - Page 11




          Appeal No. 1997-1208                                                        
          Application 08/077,219                                                      


          from some teaching, suggestion or implication in the prior art              
          as a whole or knowledge generally available to one having                   
          ordinary skill in the art.  Uniroyal Inc. v. Rudkin-Wiley                   
          Corp., 837 F.2d 1044, 1051, 5 USPQ2d 1434, 1438 (Fed. Cir.),                
          cert. denied, 488 U.S. 825 (1988); Ashland Oil, Inc. v. Delta               
          Resins & Refractories, Inc., 776 F.2d 281, 293, 227 USPQ 657,               
          664 (Fed. Cir. 1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1017 (1986); ACS               
          Hospital Systems, Inc. v. Montefiore Hospital, 732 F.2d 1572,               
          1577, 221 USPQ 929, 933 (Fed. Cir. 1984).  These showings by                
          the Examiner are an essential part of complying with the                    
          burden of                                                                   


          presenting a prima facie case of obviousness.  Note In re                   
          Oetiker, 977 F.2d 1443, 1445, 24 USPQ2d 1443, 1444 (Fed. Cir.               
          1992).                                                                      
               With respect to independent claims 1, 6, 11, and 16, the               
          Examiner, as the basis for the obviousness rejection, proposes              
          to modify the client-server system disclosure of East.  In the              
          Examiner’s analysis (Answer, page 9), East differs from the                 
          claimed invention in that, instead of a local creation of a                 


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