Appeal No. 2000-0402
Application 08/720,399
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the respective positions of appellants and
the examiner.
OPINION
It is the examiner’s position that Oba discloses the claimed subject matter but for a
release station coupled to the production staging area, the release workstation operated by a
release user, the release user being able to determine an effective date of the approved control
software, the release workstation being adapted to copy the approved control software from
the pre-production repository to a production repository located at the production staging area
on the effective date; a production workstation coupled to the production staging area for
receiving the order for a production machine, determining the subset of electronic control
modules located on the ordered production machine, and retrieving the production control
software corresponding to the subset of electronic control modules located on the ordered
production machine, the production workstation being coupled to the ordered production
machine and adapted to download the production control software from the production staging
area to the subset of electronic control modules located on the ordered production machine and
a production staging area coupled to the product engineering workstation for receiving and
storing approved production control software and for receiving an order for a production
machine in a build schedule staging area.
The examiner then points to Beasley, identifying Figures 1- 3, column 1, line 39 through
column 4, line 3 and column 4, line 53 through column 7, line 68, as teaching a release
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