Appeal No. 1999-2252
Application 08/780,790
B. Rejection of claims 17-20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over Appellants' admitted prior art in view of
Aichelmann and Dong.
Claims 17-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Appellants' admitted prior art in view
of Aichelmann and Dong.
We note that although the Examiner cites the Dong
reference in the first sentence of this rejection, the
Examiner's Answer, the final rejection, and the Office action
immediately preceding the final rejection, fail to further 23
mention Dong or point to any specific sections of this
reference relied upon by the Examiner for this rejection.
Our analysis of claim 17 reveals that this claim recites
at lines 5-7 substantially the same limitations of claim 1,
subparagraph (C), we analyzed above and found lacking in 24
Druschel, Krieger and Aichelmann. Our analysis of Dong shows
this reference discloses the management of a buffer pool to
achieve efficient use of resources, and not the claim
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