Appeal No. 1997-1933
Application No. 08/299,715
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:1
Oracle RDBMS, SQL Language Reference Manual, Version 7.0, May
1992, pp. 5-101 to 5-105 and 5-314 to 5-320. (Oracle SQL)
Oracle RDBMS, Database Administrator's Guide, Version 7.0, May
1992, chapters 1, 12, 14, and 26. (Oracle DBA)
Claims 12 and 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Oracle SQL and Oracle DBA.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 14,
mailed September 30, 1996) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejections, and to appellants'
Brief (Paper No. 13, filed July 1, 1996) and Reply Brief
(Paper No. 15, filed November 13, 1996) for appellants'
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied
prior art references, and the respective positions articulated
by appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our
1The examiner lists several references in the prior art section of the
Answer which were not actually relied upon in the rejection of the claims
under appeal. We have considered only those references that were applied
against the appealed claims.
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