Appeal No. 1999-2720
Application No. 08/580,965
retrieval/checkouts. As Tichy teaches23 that there is a space
time tradeoff, there would be no motivation to entirely
discount the importance of conserving space by employing
revisions in complete copies.
In addition, we note that although RCS as disclosed by
Tichy, and Cedar as disclosed by Ambriola, are different
stages of development of an integrated version/configuration
management system, they are of entirely two different
technical generations and use different methods and
technologies. Ambriola explicitly states24 "these generations
correspond to the use of different basic methods and
technologies for the support of the activities of
configuration management and version control." (Emphasis
added).
We are not inclined to dispense with proof by evidence
when the proposition at issue is not supported by a teaching
in a
prior art reference or shown to be common knowledge of
unquestionable demonstration. Our reviewing court requires
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