Appeal No. 1999-2720
Application No. 08/580,965
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Finally, the Examiner asserts that the combination of
these references would work because RCS as disclosed by Tichy,
and Cedar as disclosed by Ambriola are different stages of
development of an integrated version/configuration management
system.
As pointed out by our reviewing court, we must first
determine the scope of the claim. "[T]he name of the game is
the claim." In re Hiniker Co., 150 F.3d 1362, 1369, 47 USPQ2d
1523, 1529 (Fed. Cir. 1998).
Turning first to Appellant's claim 1, we note that the
Examiner has admitted that Tichy does not provide an explicit
teaching of the following claim limitations:
a. Memory and data processing system (recited in the
preamble of the claim); and
b. That the difference determined is between S3 and S1
(recited in the third subparagraph of the claim); and
c. That the integrated copy is integrated from a copy
of the initial version S1' (recited in the fourth
subparagraph of the claim); and
d. That the modified new version is incorporated from
a copy of the modified initial version (recited in
the final subparagraph of the claim).
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