Appeal No. 1999-2720
Application No. 08/580,965
complete copies of versions, one of ordinary skill in this art
would not have been motivated to combine Tichy and Ambriola.
In response to the Examiner's statement that "whether the
versions . . . are stored in the form of deltas or
complete/intact copies is not claimed, and thus does not
preclude the application of the Ambriola reference."
Appellant asserts8 that technical distinctions between
references that would preclude a suggestion or motivation for
combining references do not need to be recited in the claims.
Appellant also argues that the Examiner has not
considered Ambriola as a whole in conformance with the
requirements of
35 U.S.C. § 103 and MPEP § 2141.01. Specifically, Appellant
points to the Examiner's alleged attempt to separate this
reference's bringover and storeback commands from its delta
version control method.
At page 5 of his Reply Brief, Appellant asserts that the
Examiner's finding that a version/revision of Tichy can be
represented in a delta or a complete form, applies hindsight
8Reply brief, page 3
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